‘The Imitation Game: Movie review Jack English Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaker Alan Turing Jack English/ The Weinstein Company Cumberbatch and co-star Kiera Knightley Jack English Cumberbatch (seated) with Knightley and (from l.) Matthew Beard, Matthew Goode and Alan Leech Previous Next Enlarge There’s an algorithm for making an Oscar-ready prestige picture — and “The Imitation Game” follows it obsessively. With a committed Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead and awards-savvy producer Harvey Weinstein steering the campaign, this polished, poignant biopic may well earn the success it clearly seeks. Ultimately, though, director Morten Tyldum’s conventional approach doesn’t do full justice to his tragically unconventional hero. As played by Cumberbatch, English mathematician Alan Turing is a man fated by the timing of his birth. Ferociously brilliant, possibly autistic and definitely gay, Turing is charged with saving the war-ravaged country that considers him an abomination. The film starts in 1952 but it quickly flashes back to 1938, when Turing was called in to crack the German Enigma code. With the code being changed daily, it has been impossible to gain any traction. Turing immediately antagonizes his new colleagues (overseen by a charismatic Matthew Goode), who are equally put off by his arrogance, intense intelligence and idea for a proto-computer [...] newsnyork/the-imitation-game-movie-review-2/
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