The director of Norwegian crime thriller Headhunters helms this World War II true story of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) - the English mathematician and logician who set out to break the Enigma code used by the Nazis but was persecuted for his sexuality. Co-stars Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Mark Strong.
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The story of British code-cracker Alan Turing is, in essence, about his significant role in World War II with his counter-invention to the German's Enigma machine. While the “modified” facts may raise an eyebrow and/or finger, The Imitation Game makes the “legend” of Turing abundantly clear: he was a flawed, courageous, ingenious individual who served a society that did not serve him or “his kind”.
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The movie is undeniably strong in its sense of a bright light burned out too soon, and the often undignified fate of those who dare to chafe at society's established norms.
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It’s all anchored in a storming performance from Cumberbatch: you’ll be deciphering his work long after the credits roll.
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A highly conventional movie about a profoundly unusual man. This is not entirely a bad thing.
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What Cumberbatch delivers is an impressively rounded character study of someone variously kind, prickly, aggressive, awkward and supremely confident. But it's almost too nuanced.
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Cumberbatch has the ability to spin Turing's absence of tact into comedy and pathos.
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The Imitation Game is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon.
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