Tries to cover too much

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2015)

The Imitation Game tells the true story of Alan Turig, a World War II British mathematician who develops a monstrous machine (now known as the computer) that ultimately helps defeat Germany. Benedict Cumberbatch is outstanding in his portrayal of Turing, whose life story has two major facets: the development of the machine and later in his life being charged for the crime of being gay. The fault in The Imitation Game is director Morten Tyldum's attempts to tell both stories. Ultimately, the story of Turig's inhumane sentence — forced to undergo painful hormonal treatment to reverse his libido — was seemingly crammed into the movie, not giving it enough justice. His story would've been better served as a 90-minute movie, focusing on the machine, or a 3-hour epic, covering his life.