Let's Play The Imitation Game, Shall We?

Good day my friends I hope you are all doing well this week and had a good Christmas! So 2014 is almost over only one more day to go and over the course of this past year what have you learned. Did you learn a new skill, some sort of great information that only you can understand! Did you start a new career that you excelled at because you had more talent or intelligence in that particular field? Did you have many secret adventures as well that only you and a few others know about? Funny thing about intelligence and secrets is that they seem to go hand in hand. But one must be careful not to get to cocky and abuse that power. Yes that's right its not money, athleticism, good looks that can give you an advantage, it is intelligence! Because in anything you do in life requires intelligence and with it you can do great things, extraordinary things. And it is in our lives doing these extraordinary things that we hide some of our greatest secrets too! Makes you think doesn't it? Oops I almost forgot to tell you what movie we are reviewing for the last review of 2014. And I have decided to to take a look this week at the movie The Imitation Game which stars Benedict Cumberbatch( Sherlock,Star Trek Into Darkness) as math genius Alan Turing the man who is considered the father of computer science. This a role that Cumberbatch is getting rave reviews for, so let us take a look at this movie shall we?

This movie takes us from the 1950's when a break-in at Professor Alan Turing's home raises a bit of suspicion from the police. We are than transported back into the early 40's and WW2 with the Nazi's having taken over most of western Europe and their air raids on Great Britain. The only hope for the Allies is try and crack the Nazi communication codes for the machine known as Enigma and get the advantage they need to end the war. Enter Alan Turing(Cumberbatch) a math genius who instead of trying to decipher the code himself, he builds a code breaking machine to brake all the codes. So at Bletchley Park Turing and a brilliant team of code breakers work at Britain's top secret Government Code and Cypher School to build this race against time and build this machine to help end the war. But this movie is more than just about this great accomplishment by Alan Turing, it is also about Turing himself about his genius and his secret about being a homosexual which was a criminal offence at that time in Great Britain.

Now I must say that this movie was really well done and while it has been out for five weeks but in limited release at first and now in more theatres, it is a shame that it wasn't released in full earlier. I found the story intriguing and heartbreaking too! A beautifully written, directed and acted movie from beginning to end.  Benedict Cumberbatch gave I must say a beautifully, outstanding performance and should win a few awards here with this movie. As well did Keira Knightley who was fantastic in her role of Joan Clarke. I love how the movie was more than just about the creation of Turing's machine but more about Turing himself. About his intelligence, his contributions, his difficulty with others and the secrets he was forced to hide about himself being a homosexual as it was illegal to be one in Great Britain at that time. I really have nothing bad to say about this movie it was a wonderfully crafted motion picture. And I am giving it a 8.6 on The Justin Scale Of Movies and putting it on my Pick-It pile of movies to see at the theatre. In fact I fully recommend that you see this movie at the theatre! It will make you think, laugh, entertain and really give you a great movie going experience. So that's a wrap here on my end friends! Until next time Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good  Evening and as always Good Viewing! I will see you all against the movies.