First of all, you may notice that I am french, so if you want to criticize my review, please do so on the content, and not on grammatical errors or how I write. I am not a movie critic, and my writing style is not the best, but I just love watching movies and criticizing stuff.
So I watched The Imitation Game two days ago and I must say, it wasn't bad at all. The problem is, it wasn't great either. I went into this movie with high expectations, because of it's great reception and its 8 academy awards nominations, and I believe this was the biggest reason for which I found this movie to be disappointing. Now don't get me wrong, the movie was objectively really good, and I loved the fact that thanks to this movie, one of my favorite underrated scientist of all time would finally get some more recognition, but maybe the fact that I knew Alan Turing beforehand ruined the experience for me. I absolutely love Benedict Cumberbatch, and when I heard he would be playing Alan Turing, I was really excited. And boy did he disappoint me. His acting looked stiff and during the entire movie, I had the impression I was watching the 1950 version of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory, which really upset me. I can imagine that Alan Turing could have been this anti-social stuttering genius, but to me, it looked like the director wanted to turn him into this lovable dorky thats-just-how-he-is unconventional idiot/genius just to make the crowds love him, and it apparently worked. Cumberbatch's inconsistent stuttering and expressionless face made the fist 80% of the movie borderline unbearable to me. The music didn't make it better, quite the contrary. It had nothing special, and at some points seemed rather out of place. I caught myself regularly checking how much longer this movie was since it seemed to have no end. HOWEVER, I gave this movie a 7 out of 10 because even though I was really upset seeing Keira Knightley (I didn't like her as an actress) she actually surprised me. Her acting was impeccable and natural, and actually made me like her a lot more. The second point I wanted to praise was the ending. Now I am not going to spoil anything, but Cumberbatch's performance at the end turned from meh to marvelous. He was so convincing that he got me to completely tear up.
Even though the ending was great, I did not like this movie. But I can imagine that people would like it, since (I repeat myself) it is objectively a great movie, even though I feel it is a bit overrated. I have the greatest admiration for Alan Turing and his work, so I am quite happy that the movie got such a large audience and so, that this genius finally got the recognition he deserved.
So I watched The Imitation Game two days ago and I must say, it wasn't bad at all. The problem is, it wasn't great either. I went into this movie with high expectations, because of it's great reception and its 8 academy awards nominations, and I believe this was the biggest reason for which I found this movie to be disappointing. Now don't get me wrong, the movie was objectively really good, and I loved the fact that thanks to this movie, one of my favorite underrated scientist of all time would finally get some more recognition, but maybe the fact that I knew Alan Turing beforehand ruined the experience for me. I absolutely love Benedict Cumberbatch, and when I heard he would be playing Alan Turing, I was really excited. And boy did he disappoint me. His acting looked stiff and during the entire movie, I had the impression I was watching the 1950 version of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory, which really upset me. I can imagine that Alan Turing could have been this anti-social stuttering genius, but to me, it looked like the director wanted to turn him into this lovable dorky thats-just-how-he-is unconventional idiot/genius just to make the crowds love him, and it apparently worked. Cumberbatch's inconsistent stuttering and expressionless face made the fist 80% of the movie borderline unbearable to me. The music didn't make it better, quite the contrary. It had nothing special, and at some points seemed rather out of place. I caught myself regularly checking how much longer this movie was since it seemed to have no end. HOWEVER, I gave this movie a 7 out of 10 because even though I was really upset seeing Keira Knightley (I didn't like her as an actress) she actually surprised me. Her acting was impeccable and natural, and actually made me like her a lot more. The second point I wanted to praise was the ending. Now I am not going to spoil anything, but Cumberbatch's performance at the end turned from meh to marvelous. He was so convincing that he got me to completely tear up.
Even though the ending was great, I did not like this movie. But I can imagine that people would like it, since (I repeat myself) it is objectively a great movie, even though I feel it is a bit overrated. I have the greatest admiration for Alan Turing and his work, so I am quite happy that the movie got such a large audience and so, that this genius finally got the recognition he deserved.