Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Dougray ScottTom Jericho
- Kate WinsletHester Wallace
- Saffron BurrowsClaire Romilly
- Jeremy NorthamMr. Wigram
- Nikolaj Coster-WaldauPuck
- Tom HollanderLogie
- Donald SumpterLeveret
- Matthew MacfadyenCave
- Richard LeafBaxter
- Bohdan PorajPinker
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
It is such a grand, romantic entertainment that it sweeps the viewer along in its swiftly escalating suspense. - 80
Variety
Intelligent, involving and intricately plotted thriller. - 75
Chicago Tribune
The film manages to crack all its codes, and even when it sags a bit, it's never lacking grace and some wit. Not enigmatically at all, it pleases and teases us -- in high style. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The combined talents of Apted, Stoppard and the stellar cast make Enigma a puzzle worth solving. - 70
Village Voice
Doesn't coddle the audience. But neither does it play fair. The narrative takes several fast turns and stops short with the sudden introduction of new material; the exposition is hurried and lazily predicated on characters' thinking aloud. - 60
New Times (L.A.)
Certainly a terrific sense of urgency underlies the story and Tom's desperation over Claire is palpable, but that may not be enough for viewers who actually like to understand how the riddle is unraveling. - 42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
All these good elements have resulted in a movie that is not so much awful as mediocre, disconnected and ultimately incomprehensible. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
A turgid muddle of romance, espionage, and geek valor, despite intimations that it might have turned into ''A Reasonably Dapper-Looking Mind.''
