Flick Chick Review ‘The Imitation Game’

Flick Chick here once again in the pursuit of truth, justice and keeping you from spending your hard earned money on movies that don’t make the grade! Over the weekend grabbed my secret squirrel decoder ring and headed to the Bangor Mall Cinemas to see ‘The Imitation Game’

This movie runs just under 2 hours is a biography, drama, thriller and is rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong

Summary:

Tantalized by code breaking and puzzles mathematician Alan Turing offers to work for British Intelligence during World War II.  Recognizing that he is their best chance of breaking the codes of the messages they are intercepting and winning the war they hire him along with a group of mathematicians, to crack the enigma code machine being used by the Nazis. The movie is based on Turing’s biography; he is credited with taking 2 years off the length of WWII saving millions of lives and his thinking machines being the inspiration of today’s computers.

Review:

This movie is no doubt a fascinating a little known part of world history. It reminded me of ‘Argo” in the way that this true and epic story that saved so many was kept from the public for so many years. The movie is testament to how as Alan put it "Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." Alan Turing was awkward and brilliant from the time he was a boy and Benedict Cumberbatch does an incredible job portraying him. I loved the chemistry he and Keira Knightley. I was also moved by the bitter sweet revelation of what he was forced to go through, made it have a sad edge. On a scale of 1-10, I’m giving ‘The Imitation Game’ a 10.

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