Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 105
Fresh: 76 | Rotten: 29
The well-crafted, twist-filled Enigma is a thinking person's spy thriller.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 7
The well-crafted, twist-filled Enigma is a thinking person's spy thriller.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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The true story of a major breakthrough in intelligence technology created during World War II provides the backdrop for this blend of mystery, romance, and espionage, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) is a gifted mathematician who is working with the British government on the development and maintenance of the Enigma machine, an electronic device that allows Allied intelligence agents to decode scrambled messages sent by Germany military officers. But the
Apr 19, 2002 Limited
Sep 24, 2002
$3.8M
Manhattan Pictures Internation
All Critics (120) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (29) | DVD (17)
A complicated and intelligent British film with a curious roster of off-screen talent.
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.
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.
The combined talents of Apted, Stoppard and the stellar cast make Enigma a puzzle worth solving.
Enigma is anything but enigmatic about affairs of the heart, and is well worth seeing for its elective affinities alone.
WWII drama has excellent performances; ok for 15+.
Tom Stoppard's script, inspired by historical events, commands attention with daring, dizzying twists, betrayals and manipulations. An intelligent examination of the dangerous impulse to categorize the unpredictable or unthinkable.
Steeped in the tense atmopshere of Wartime Britain, Michael Apted's semi-Hitchcockian drama centers on the mysteries of code breaking while at the same time relates a noirish tale of love, obsession and betrayal.
Tries to wed a wartime spy thriller with a noir mystery involving a femme fatale, which doesn't fully work.
Buy or rent the only the fantastic Special Edition DVD. The original DVD release has no extras and one of the worst digital transfers I've ever seen.
O roteiro é confuso em certos momentos e a edição (que inclui vários flashbacks) deixa a desejar, mas, no geral, é um filme interessante.
Within a few weeks' time you'd forget ever having seen it at all . . .
For the great turns from Scott, Winslet and Northam and the timely reminder that the greatest acts of heroism are so often unsung, it deserves your attention.
A cleverly involving, slow-burning dramatic thriller.
Decent retelling of the real life story of the cracking of the Enigma code
October 7, 2009Super Reviewer
The story of the breaking of Nazi codes during World War 2 is surely an interesting topic. Sadly, this movie does not entirely live up to that promise. The look isn't exactly cinema standard, it often feels like a British TV movie with its soft-focus flashbacks. Those, while telling an aspect of the story that's
September 27, 2007Super Reviewer
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