"Are you paying attention"?

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2015)

You should. Based on the life of genius British mathematician Alan Turing, and the best-selling book of the same name, "The Imitation Game" is for me the best movie of the year. Even though it would've been fully justified to do so, it doesn't pretend to be a movie that gives you an inferiority complex for not having a Physics or a Maths degree, and that's where it beats Interstellar. The director managed to pull off a story that deals with solving arguably the most complex mathematical problem of the 20th century without giving you a headache. Hats off to Benedict Cumberbatch for his outstanding portrayal of Turing as a tormented genius, hiding what used to be a shameful secret in that era - homosexuality, introvert, bullied and terribly unsocial but uncharacteristically defiant and arrogant when it came to his work. The supporting cast also never let him down. On the flip side, it does get a little cliché at times - not all geeks have to have the same mannerisms like Sheldon Cooper, not understanding colloquial language and not looking at people when talking, but that doesn't take much away from the movie. There're also historical goofs but then, if you care so much about facts, you probably should stick with the History channel.
Go see how a man sacrificed everything to save 14 million lives and the World didn't know it for 50 years! What he created, the "Turing Machine" is better known by another name today; we call them computers!