Alan Turing, who saved millions of lives by cracking Germany';s so-called unbreakable code during WWII. During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ';gross indecency';, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.
24 April 1971, England, UK
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24 July 1976, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
3 April 1978, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
18 January 1985, Bucharest, Romania
17 February 1976, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1973, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
21 February 1987, Bristol, England, UK
18 April 1959, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK
11 May 1977, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
8 May 1884, Lamar, Missouri, USA
13 June 1987, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
April 01, 2017
A conventional but first-rate spy thriller.
January 04, 2015
This film about one of the past century's smartest humans at times treats its own audience like a classroom of remedial learners.
January 04, 2015
It's a film about drive, about imagination, and how brilliance thrives outside the mainstream. These are common enough themes given uncommon purchase in a film about a man who likely saved millions of lives by never fitting in.
January 04, 2015
The "action" here is Turing tinkering with his machine. Or simply thinking -- which, as Cumberbatch portrays it, is adventure of the highest order.
January 04, 2015
[Cumberbatch's] whose portrayal of the British mathematician and WWII code-smasher is a feat of nuanced intelligence, a portrait of anguish with hints of arid humor. And, yes, arrogance.
November 15, 2016
The Imitation Game is a classic 'race against time' tale with the added intrigue of how the authorities would deign to use the information they had once Enigma had been cracked.
November 15, 2016
The Imitation Game is a polished and efficient drama, and looks great on a comparatively modest budget of 15 million, especially the loving reconstruction of Alan's beautiful machine.
November 15, 2016
A strong supporting cast, including Matthew Goode as crypto-analyst Hugh Alexander, Mark Strong as spymaster Stewart Menzies and Charles Dance as head of the codebreaking unit Alastair Denniston, are given tragically little screen time.
February 24, 2017
The Imitation Game is a wonderful adaptation of his story, full of brilliant performances, an engaging directing style, and an exuberant soundtrack.
January 04, 2015
We go into a movie knowing that the subject was as genius or a hero, a martyr or titan. We should leave with a more nuanced understanding of who he was, his complexities and flaws.
April 25, 2017
The Imitation Game retakes the myth, interprets it again and in this is lost something of the innocence of a story turned into legend. [Full review in Spanish]
