The Imitation Game: More Oscar Bait for Me to Enjoy!

The Imitation Game came out of relatively nowhere, but I heard it referred to a "Top 10 movie all-time" by a guy on Colin Cowherd's show and I noticed it's amazing scores on Rotten Tomatoes. Those coupled with Benedict Cumberbatch= Must see movie for this guy. The film follows the tale of Alan Turing, a British mathematics genius who worked on deciphering the German Enigma machine during WWII. I, being a history nerd of sorts, knew that Britain decoded the Enigma machine, which led to valuable intelligence, specifically the D-Day landing and towards the end of the war. Alan Turing is your standard unsung hero lost from the pages of history that possibly played a larger role in shaping our modern world than any other person of the 20th century. I realize how incredibly bold this statement is considering the likes of Einstein, Oppenheimer (guy who is most credited with the Atomic bomb), Tesla, Edison (more 19th century though), Gates, Jobs, ETC all have been involved in that century. Turing decided in 1940 already that the key to decoding the German encrypted messages was to create a machine that could run through all 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities of the Enigma machine to decode everything instead of trying to decode individual messages. His views weren't shared by many, particularly his Col. on sight, but he gains a powerful ally in MI-6 agent (JAMES BOND SHIT) Stewart Menzies who has a direct line to Churchill. He receives funding and eventually controls the others in his unit. The sole focus becomes making a "computer" that can run all the potential combinations quickly enough (before Midnight every day) to decode the intercepted messages in enough time to be useful. The Germans didn't even try to hide their messages because of their absolute trust that the Enigma was unbreakable. Turing faced a LOT of challenges and even after cracking the code he faced every kind of dilemma and stress imaginable. I don't want to release the secrets of the film, but his life was tragic and he truly held the weight of world at times. This was all secret until 2013 and THAT'S an incredible accomplishment to keep the accomplishments of that group hidden from the world. Amazing that those responsible for such heroism and feats of greatness couldn't share it with ANYONE. Bottom Line: 9.5 out of 10. Another incredible film that could again be "Oscar bait", but it was incredibly well done in all aspects. Cumberbatch plays the genius socially awkward guy perfectly. Knightley does VERY well in a complex role, Mark Strong is perfect as the mysterious MI-6 agent, Matt Goode is awesome. I was impressed by the effort by all and deeply saddened by the facts uncovered by this film and how we couldn't celebrate the great accomplishment of Alan Turing, the Grandfather of the computer. Hats off cast & crew of The Imitation Game. Oyewolo deserves Best Actor over Cumberbatch for the record.