Very solid movie

Rating: 9/10 (18 April 2015)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"The Imitation Game" (2014) is a very solid biography, history drama. It has great performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, very solid directing, involving script. Nevertheless this movie isn't perfect, because although it's very solidly made, the feeling that i'm being a bit manipulated was over me during whole picture. Reasoons for that are a bit one note performance by Keira Knightley - she's just so good-natured person and best friend next door during whole movie - hard not to like her, this is a good performance, but not that good to earn Oscar nomination. Script, which won Oscar is great, involving and intriguing, but i also felt some minor manipulations here and there, because it's a bit formulaic / routine biopic. The scene in which we first meet Keira Knightley's character and the outcome of it was clear after the first seconds of this scene.
Overall, there aren't many flaws in this movie and it's very good - you should definitely watch it - this is superbly paced movie about person who made some truly amazing and important works but wasn't recognized during his life.