The Imitation Game

This was a nice film and an interesting history, one that perhaps should have been a Masterpiece theatre production, where they would have had more time and given it more edge. It was nicely filmed but had no real sense of narrative tension. Cumberbatch was very good, adding a welcomed injection of personal trauma. Much more, though, could have been done: there is no real meat offered about the structure of Turing's machine - we're not stupid, we can take it; some real tension would have come from interagency conflict, the implication of MI6 manipulating the war behind the backs of the Defence ministry staff using the Turring team would have been highly dramatic with some significant, ongoing moral dilemmas; or the 'real' pressures Turing was operating under as a gay man at that time, not the protected distance of a comfortable interview or a newspaper article. As I say, a nice film.