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ENIGMA DVD from Miramax

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2021

Not sure why I haven't written a review of this film before. I have viewed the DVD now 3 times since 2013, and I still find it hard going, but worth while. It does require concentration as the plot is pretty complicated ( and a bit hard to swallow in places), but the acting/casting is great and fun, except perhaps for Dougray Scott, who really looks as if he was on another planet. I must have enjoyed it to see it 3 times!! The DVD is excellent quality, with good picture, sound and subtitles. I won't describe the plot except to say the Bletcley Park sequences are really gripping, and the whole film, while it may indeed play fast and loose with the facts, is still a fascinating watch. Recomended

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Mercury

Alan Turing is erased from history and replaced

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2021

This film is a tragedy and utterly disgusting. It erases Alan Turing, who we know was the mind behind breaking the Enigma code. Here's he's replaced by a heterosexual character, which is just whitewashing a heroic, brilliant mind and man from the history - because it was too troublesome to the writer or director to include the horrific story of Turing's homosexuality and the way he was coerced into chemical castration and later killed himself? This is just horrific. It should be taken down from Amazon immediately.

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Great admirer of Director

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2016

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Great admirer of Director, Michael Apted - also regular visitor to Bletchley Park over many years. Why could they not have filmed at BP rather than at another location. At the time this film was made (2001) Bletchley was run almost entirely by keen - but well informed volunteers - and they could have done with the cash generated by using the Park as the film location. I appreciate that this is a work of fiction and that the odd assortment of people who worked at Bletchley - from cryptic crossword buffs to outstanding linguists - but I did find the cavalier approach of a Royal Navy officer to his superior just a little OTT. In short, it lacked credibility. That said, it was an enjoyable film with haunting theme music by John Barry.

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Monster D.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2019

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I have not read the book but I like Dougray Scott as an actor and was interested in this film . Story is a bit complicated but the acting is good especially Tom Hollander and Kate Winslet. Worth a watch.

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Obscure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2021

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There was a clash between Harris’s general aim to clarify and Stoppard’s writing to mystify. Result -obscurity.

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Mrs. Joyce Jones

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2018

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Not as good as the book. I am glad I read the book first.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2015

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A Hollywood style treatment of the Bletchley Park story that is interesting but could have been done far better. This does not do justice to one of the greatest stories of WW2.

The acting is good and the plot in OK but the photography and the sets are not!

Worth buying if cheap.
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Tmanic

Bletchely Park - the Enigma Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2015

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Having just read the Kindle edition of the book I was looking forward to watching the film. The film covered the essentials but (in my opinion) lacked the depth and description of the book.

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anthony waters

Interesting as have just visited Bletchley Park

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2021

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Film was spoilt by sound and picture going out of sinc several times and kept having to re start it

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Mrs J. Auty

Not bad!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2015

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Quite entertaining - but a bit staid - not as good as the new Benedict Cumberbatch movie about the Enigma code

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Tis23

Entertaining.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2013

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Having read the book, I expected a lot from the movie and perhaps was expecting too much. It is an entertaining enough film, but the book is far, far more interesting and suspenseful.

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Mike

Not for serious followers of Bletchley Park history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2013

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A light take on the doings at Bletchley Park, reasonably well acted but not for serious followers of that place and its people!

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