Overall A Well-made Biographical Dramatic Thriller

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2015)

I caught this film at the local multi-plex earlier this year. After my sister was telling me how great it was, my dad and I are sitting in the theater watching about the first half hour, and bored out of our gords! LOL BUT...skip ahead to after that first half hour, and very exciting movie!
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who is hired to decrypt German intelligence codes for the British government during World War II. I kept thinking of "Big Bang Theory" throughout most of this film- with Turing being Sheldon; Joan Clarke (Keira Knightly) being Penny; and then you've got the other three blokes-?? LOL
I also managed to look up some of the real history involved with this story. Turing, it turns out, got along well with his colleagues- was considered to have a good sense of humor. The code-cracking team was not who decided when/where to use the info against the Germans- that was done by higher-up admins. Turing never named his machine after his school chum. And Clarke's family commented about the casting of Knightley as their family member- describing her as "rather plain". LOL THEIR words.. LOL
But no matter- this is a great story- both a socio-political as well biographical one--as well as the origin story of perhaps the greatest invention of the modern era... Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear and Charles Dance also star.