Another face of the war

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2015)

This was one of the most anticipated movies in the Oscar season and it fulfilled my expectations but nothing more. Don't get me wrong, as the credits started to roll i felt satisfaction but something was missing.
Benedict Cumberbatch brings a great performance, he played the genius very well who sometimes struggles with stutter and cruelly tells what he thinks, even so with this attitude he often becomes the hated person in the team.
Keira Knightley was not bad either but she could not convince me she is a genius, despite of the fact that she was dressed in unfavorable clothes. The others could not get so much attention but they also delivered the expected.
I've only had one bigger problem. Actually, i totally lost the interest in the last 15 minutes of the movie, as soon as the main focus (cracking the enigma code) was successfully accomplished the story started to concentrate more on Alan Turing's homosexuality. It broke the interesting storyline and from there it became boring and slow. Until that point the movie was an entertaining thriller with a small amount of drama but at the very end it completely turned into a drama which has no more time to expand. Just for the record ,the real acting challenge for Cumberbatch started from there and he nailed it very well.
The movie wanted to be a thriller, drama and biography at the same time the but it could not manage it's own time and forgot to share the focus between these 3 genres. Because of this the overall picture became unbalanced.
It is hard to tell what more i wanted, maybe a big twist in the end or a really powerful moment during the interrogation scene could make the movie more memorable.
All in all, this is a very demanding movie which can easily entertain different ages and meanwhile able to share interesting facts about another face of the war.