Assignment 16: Horray for Hollywood -Tora Sellers

I didn't know how to post a review to Rotten Tomatoes, so here it is.

I went into this film after hearing several friends of mine saying good things about it. Maybe it was a bad idea watching a movie with any kind of prior bias, but I couldn’t stop noticing all of the inconsistencies. From the very beginning, I had trouble understanding what this film wanted to accomplish. At first, it seems as though the primary goal is to tell the story of cracking the enigma. This is what I was originally hoping to see. But ¾ of the way through, the focus changes very abruptly to the question of, “How do we judge Allan Turing?”. The reason why this is a problem is because the shift is so abrupt that is disrupts the way the story flows. Also, the shift occurs so late into the film that it is difficult to properly expand on the idea, and the film fails to do so. At the very end of the movie, the focus switches once again to Turing’s homosexuality. Despite only mentioning the subject a handful of times, the final scene where the team of code-breakers burns the evidence gives the impression that the movie was about gay rights the whole time. Although I didn’t hate the visuals or the, they aren’t enough to make up for the plot inconsistencies in the film.