A complicated and intelligent British film with a curious roster of off-screen talent.
Enigma
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2001 · 1h 59m · R
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Directed by
Michael Apted
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Enigma
Overview
The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Not enigmatically at all, it pleases and teases us -- in high style.
It arrives with an impeccable pedigree, mongrel pep, and almost indecipherable plot complications.
Jericho and Hester spend so much time on investigative idylls in the damp spring countryside that spy work starts to seem like a military garden party.
Apted and his crew pull out all the stops to craft a thriller out of material that looks better on paper than it does on film.
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