It's a Shame They Dumbed It Down

Rating: 5/10 (24 May 2015)

I enjoyed Benedict Cumberbatch and the recreation of the WW II atmosphere. Also, the story, as a story, was fairly compelling.
But in the end, the movie insulted my intelligence by oversimplifying everything. As just one example, after Turing's machine starts successfully decrypting Enigma messages, one team member wants to use it to stop an attack on an Allied convoy. And to make it more melodramatic, his brother is on the doomed convoy. They all have a big fight about it because some of them realize (apparently for the first time) that that might tip off the Germans that their code has been broken. These weren't dumb people. The problem would have occurred to them long before.
Overall, the movie was fake, contrived, and manipulative. I understand literary license, but it went way beyond that.