On August 14, the movie “Imitation Game” leaves the Netflix catalog. If you still haven’t seen it and if you missed Benedict Cumberbatch’s incredible performance, then catch up quickly.
We discovered him in the series Sherlock, in which he played a slightly sociopathic but terribly endearing iteration of the British sleuth. Since then, Benedict Cumberbatch has moved to the big screen and has made hits, between blockbusters and more confidential films. But each time, the actor fully immerses himself in his character and everyone agrees.
The one who never chooses the easy way out and who enjoys playing character roles agreed in 2014 to play in Imitation Game, a biopic about Alan Turing, a mathematician and cryptologist, tasked by the British government with cracking the secret of the famous German encryption machine Enigma, reputed to be inviolable.
If the public did not know the story of this scientist whose work helped end the war two years earlier (according to historians), it is because Alan Turing had a tragic end: tried and convicted for his homosexuality, he committed suicide with cyanide in 1941 after chemical castration. And it is precisely the complexity of the character that attracted Cumberbatch.
The best role of his career?
Under the direction of Morten Tyldum and guided by the writing of Graham Moore (who won the Oscar for this film), the British actor offers a performance full of nuance and restraint. He offers us the portrait of a misunderstood genius who seeks to understand our world at all costs, obsessed with the idea of making a machine endowed with consciousness (he is the father of the computer and artificial intelligence).
Despite the very good performances of Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Mark Strong, the spectators largely praised the performance of Cumberbatch, who was nominated that year in various prestigious ceremonies, but without ever winning a statuette.
With a score of 4.3/5, The Imitation Game is his best film according to viewers on AlloCiné. And it is entirely deserved: “A masterful performance”A “Intense and inhabited Cumberbatch”, “formidable”, “remarkable”, “breathtaking” …the reviews left on the film's page are full of praise for it.
Users also highlight the quality of the production, the archival work with the skillful use of flashbacks and the superposition of historical images, as well as the play on suspense which makes it a breathtaking thriller. All this makes The Imitation Game a film to see or re-see.
And you only have one week left to do so because it's leaving Netflix on August 14th!