This movie was held together by the performance of Cumberbatch (and I still think Matthew Goode is one of the more underrated actors acting right now, his performance is still as magnetic and good as every film I've seen him in). It's weird because Cumberbatch is basically playing Sherlock Holmes without the same kind confidence and arrogance but yet it comes across as being completely a different performance. This guy is on a completely different level of acting than mostly everyone else in the world. His scenes with Knightly only prove what a one note kind of actress she is and dove tail into my dislike of her - as an actress.
This movie does have one problem as most biographical movies do - there isn't a lot of tension as to what is going on because we already know how it ends. Therefore the relationships and characters of the movie need to be built up and strengthened to make the story line flow. Sadly I don't think either of those two items were addressed that well in this movie. But the story of Turnning's machine and solving the Nazis code did end up being entertaining.
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