The Imitation Game was a fairly typical and good biopic, even if it did stray a lot from the reality of the events. Turing definitely wasn't the lone wolf who single-handedly cracked Enigma he's portrayed as being, and was in fact supported by thousands of people, with many playing integral roles that don't even get mentioned in the movie. Most of the dramatic conflicts in the movie are just completely made up, with the real Turing being well-liked by his colleagues, not being so in the closet, not having issues with his superiors, never being threatened with getting fired, having entirely different bookends to his relationship with his fiancee and a far less "simple" end to his life. In fact, Joan Clarke never experienced such pressure from her parents and women in Bletchley Park outnumbered men four to one, so a major part of her role was practically fiction and just "hurr, women had it so tough back then" which, while it was indeed the case, isn't something that this particular story should be representing.

Of course, this is a dramatic movie so it does make sense to have some artistic liberties taken but at this point the entire movie's "based on a true story" only so far as its plot synopsis is accurate. In adapting it to a movie, there were also a number of unconvincing contrivances and convenient coincidences to move the plot along, with your typical chance happening causing a eureka moment, as well as entirely downplaying his homosexuality, presumably to appeal to a larger (older) audience. Now, excusing all the historical inaccuracies and keeping in mind it is meant to be just a movie, it's still enjoyable. Cumberbatch is fantastic, even though Turing's personality is largely exaggerated, and the rest of the cast are good too, even if the story doesn't care about any of them. Desplat's score's great as usual and there was a surprising number of comedic moments which I wasn't expecting at all from the promotional material. There was too much repetition of aphorisms and wink wink casual mentions of things that had happened earlier in the movie which all seemed pretty forced. If you're okay with biopics completely misrepresenting their historical figures, it's a pretty good movie.

I really loved the movie and the great performance of Cumberbatch. Alan Turing was a real hero and never recognized like that. Knowing that this happen in secret and only was revealed 50 years later…What more we don’t know?

It was inspirational and actually it doesn't matter how accurate they told the story of Alan Turing because it wasn't an academical writing or biography, it's just a movie to make you realise that Alan Turing changed the world. I intend to do further search about Alan Turing and I think what makes the movie successful is curiosity that audiences feel. Not every movie can achieve that

The acting is just amazing and the story in itself is as well. It is so sad what happened to this great mind – the actors and team involved here did a really great job paying homage to this great person!

Imitation? then someone lost that game. The real Turing had nothing to do with the portrayal done by Broomface Cumberbatch. It's like hesaid "meh, let's just make a not funny Sheldon Cooper". And he has been doing the same character everywhere... The movie also fails to portray the real development of the Enigma machine. They show it as the work of just one man everyone thinks he is crazy, when it was the product of several teams with hundreds of people. And most of the key events were just made up.

But at least the movie serves to teach people about the life (or at least the existence) of a great man who was forgotten by history, so that's why I still give it an 8. Also, it never gets boring, it's enjoyable, even if you already know they are making up most of it.

It shouldn't be classified as biopic, but as historical fiction.

Ok movie with great performance by Cumberbatch.

As you can read in other comments the movie isn´t 100% true to the historical facts. Even without knowing that I thought the plot itself to superfical. They touched a lot of topics without exploring any one deeper.

For me Cumberbatch carries this movie, without him it would have been a mediocre one.

Interesting movie but historically inaccurate. Smells like propaganda…

Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic in this movie. I really dug this. Love movies set during WWII and this one encapsulates it brilliantly. Felt they did the story justice while also having an underlying message on acceptance.

**Score:** _90%_
**Verdict:** _Excellent_