If you haven't seen HEADHUNTERS by Tyldum, do so now. It's why I'm more excited about this than most Oscar-bait biopics.

Early reviews from Telluride are very strong. No surprise.

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I want to see this

Dude was gay right? I thought the preview I saw gave that away
Made it interesting frankly
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rest due to a very GREAT performance by Cumberbatch and very, very good supporting turn by Kiera Knightly.

This a rental b.

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Solid enough but nothing special and gets worse when you know more about what actually happened.

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The acting is excellent and I hope we see Benedict Cumberbatch with an Oscar nomination for his role as Alan Turing. The casting is a bit too glamorous for my liking but okay, its cinema. Kiera Knightly once again shows a pretty face but quite limited range of acting.

The director manages multiple plot threads and does tie them together in the non-linear plot structure. However, due to the multiple story lines (all of them interesting) the pacing of the film I felt is slow.

It is a fantastic story based around the breaking of the Enigma machine which shortened WW2 as well as the private personal life of Alan Turing who was homosexual which in the 1940s was considered an act of gross indecency and could lead to chemical castration.

Looking forward to hearing other peoples views on this film.

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I've heard that much of the story in the film is made up, which is quite a shame considering how interesting the real story is.

The book that this was supposedly based on, "Alan Turing: the Enigma", by Andrew Hodges, is reputed to be one of the best science biographies ever written. I've been meaning to read it for a long time.

and I can't recommend it to anyone because of the horrible inaccuracies. It's one thing to gloss over subtleties. It's a whole separate kettle of fish to say that he was a traitor* and was suspected of being a spy. That's fucked up.


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*It is an act of treason for him to have protected the guy giving information to the Soviets, even though the Soviets were allied with England. This is complete bullshit. Turing never met the guy. It really pisses me off that they are maligning him.




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The first half of the film is waayyyy more exciting and interesting than the 2nd half.

If it gets Turing's (fascinating) story out there, then it's a success. But this is another by-the-numbers biopic (a little more generic than Selma).

If you already know the story, there's not much here for you. Cumberbatch is good, but kind of on auto-pilot.

Cumberbatch, awesome, but nothing else special. Which means it'll sweep at the Oscars.

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