The Imitation Game is one of the year’s best films as it tells the story of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) and, as I wrote in my review out of Toronto, it “balances multiple timelines with precision, bouncing from Turing’s childhood in the late ’20s, to code cracking Germany’s Enigma code during World War II and finally where the story begins, 1952, as Turing falls under the questioning eye of a police detective.”
Turing is credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, but the film is about so much more than his skills as a cryptanalyst, computer scientist and just all around genius. It explores his social awkwardness and using the multiple timelines I referenced above, explores aspects of his life that come together to make him the man he was and it is fascinating and expertly told.
Written by Graham Moore and directed by Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), along with Cumberbatch the film co-stars Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Matthew Beard.
You can read my full review right here, but first here’s the new UK trailer ahead of its upcoming November 14 release overseas and November 21 release here in the States.
