Review of The Imitation Game (2014) by Dirigiblepulp — 01 Feb 2015

This Oscar bait movie may be the flattest and least interesting since "The Reader" snuck its Weinstein backed ass into the race in 2008. It's not that the story isn't good, or shouldn't have been told. There's loads of potential everywhere you look here. Cumberbatch has pretty much been bred for the role of Alan Turing over the last couple years, practicing and perfecting his "not really Asperger's" type genius anti-social with just the right amount of heart of gold underneath.

It's that every aspect of this movie seems indifferent. The boringly shot compositions and superficial character depth. The well-meaning for its own sake without being earned (I'm talking about the tragedy of chemical castraction Turing faces for being a homosexual). This feels like a CliffsNotes version of the story, told by a tenured professor thinking of golfing and retirement. Nothing really adds up here. It's a shame.