Alan Turing was a war hero who won the war through his genius

Rating: 7/10 (20 January 2015)

"Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me."
The flick takes birth with the aforementioned enthralling screenplay that smells of confidence dripping off Cumberbatch's brainiac- avatar. We like to listen to him that way. His bold voice that reeks of Smaug fury. That voice of Khan that reminds us of his sharp demeanor that he beautifully donned and carried throughout Star Trek. He literally breathes on screenplay. Don't you just wish screenwriters had more badass words to feed him?
Enigma is impossible to crack. So the world told him. Alan Turing, the prodigy who defied a relentless encrypting machine, was the person responsible for reducing the devastating span of war that engulfed Europe by two years. The Father of Artificial Intelligence played God to minimize casualties and nobody knew. The biopic is a tribute to Turing which eases through 114 minutes of brilliance manifesting his love life, his genius, his eureka and his sorry demise.
Cumberbatch as the polymath works extremely hard to project a guy who is different from the rest by imparting him an apt stammer and a clumsy gravity. Alexandre Desplat weaves magic in the background with his brilliant notes. Morten Tyldum's direction is good but there are times when you feel it could have gone better. Since, directors believe viewers to be laymen, most of them don't venture into the technical. What I personally believe is that a little bit fathomable technical is a welcome inclusion and if a director makes you understand the what and the how of the work entailed, big things like cracking a code should give you an equal and exact amount of thrill as projected by the protagonist. Precisely what the flick missed.
Turing is a war hero often unsung and overlooked. What he gave the world is truly precious. Somehow something tells me, this guy's life deserves a series to portray minute crucial details that couldn't be possibly condensed in a movie. The grandeur of what he was doing and what he did is beyond time. A flick doesn't do justice to his remarkable life.
The Imitation Game rivets you with Alan's ingenious almost instantly. Desplat's notes make sure that you don't get a jaded moment at all. Whilst Cumberbatch ensures you witness a prodigy. Goode, Knightley, Dance and Strong fill the screen aptly with their effective and memorable presence. Overall the movie turns out brilliant.
A great biopic to watch. Highly recommended.