If you do end up watching The Imitation Game and rightfully applauding its performances, do so with gusto but do also look up the facts of Turing’s life.

As for this critic who expected more from yet another obvious biopic-shaped piece of Oscar-bait, well, as that feeble Floyd album sang, High Hopes.

This movie has the same unmistakable stench of disappointment and the waft of simplistic tripe that his previous movie ‘The Fifth Estate’ had. The same can also be said about director Morten Tyldum who showed so much promise in the Norwegian film ‘Headhunters’ and sold out so easily to the comforts of Hollywood.