The Imitation Game (2014) movie poster

The Imitation Game (2014)

"The true enigma was the man who cracked the code."
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👍 90%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 80%
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Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America, United Kingdom
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.0/10 (17,887 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
71

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing · 77% avg
Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke · 72% avg
Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander · 71% avg
Rory Kinnear as Detective Robert Nock · 69% avg
Allen Leech as John Cairncross · 74% avg
Matthew Beard as Peter Hilton
Charles Dance as Commander Denniston · 72% avg
Mark Strong as Stewart Menzies · 70% avg

Is The Imitation Game good?

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#24 / 389 · History
Rank in its year
#6 / 295 · 2014

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Imitation Game is a 2014 British-American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who played a pivotal role in cracking Nazi Germany's Enigma code during World War II. The film interweaves three timelines: Turing's wartime work at Bletchley Park, where he leads a team of codebreakers in building a machine to decrypt German military communications; his troubled schoolboy years, during which his close friendship with a classmate awakens an awareness of his homosexuality; and a 1951 police investigation into a burglary at his home that threatens to expose his sexuality at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offense in Britain. Benedict Cumberbatch's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, capturing both Turing's extraordinary intellectual gifts and his social awkwardness with sensitivity and nuance.

Keira Knightley received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as Joan Clarke, one of the few women working at Bletchley Park and Turing's brief fiancée. The film brought wider public attention to Turing's tragic story — despite his incalculable contribution to the Allied war effort, which historians estimate shortened the war by two years and saved millions of lives, Turing was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952, subjected to chemical castration, and died in 1954 in circumstances officially ruled as suicide. The Imitation Game earned $233 million worldwide on a $14 million budget and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The film contributed to the broader cultural reassessment of Turing's legacy, which had already led to an official British government apology in 2009 and a posthumous royal pardon in 2013.

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