Trilogy - Enigma

enigma dvd

Advantages: nice print
Disadvantages: nothing as such..

enigma is a very beautiful script written very carefully and intelligible. the characters played by all of them are just marvellous and very close to reality. all have performed very well. even those new to acting have performed as though they have acted for the first time. i own the dvd nd the print is very good and clear. i m not so sure about the availability of the sub title but it doesnt matter. overall its a must watch movie so i would advice all to take it home...talking about the story its some where becomes too slow... but overall i would rate it 3 to 4 . the story is enigmatic as its been entitled. comparing to other similar films, its far better than those in 2001. ...

unknown_freqncy 24.01.2009 · Read full review
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Enigma - The Movie

Advantages: Nice watchable film, little unsuitable language
Disadvantages: watch it and see - none that I noticed.

Enigma (directed by Michael Apted) has Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) returned to Bletchley Park after a nervous breakdown to try and break secret German codes after they were suddenly changed and became undecipherable. His girl-friend Claire (Saffron Burrows) had dissapeared and along with her room - mate Hester (Kate Winslet) start looking for her. To crack the codes it requires a convoy of much needed goods to steer directly into the path of waiting German u-boats, so that they can get the position and course of the convoy (which those in Bletchley Park already know) from German radio messages and if they get enough of them, they can use this to decipher the new codes, which they eventually do, but at the cost of a number of ships and lives. There is also the problem of a traitorin Bletchley Park who has to be discovered ...

gander 30.09.2001 · Read full review
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Enigma - well not completely

Advantages: Its British, Its a spy film and Saffron is cute
Disadvantages: The camera gives it all away

I had heard of this film a long time ago, before they had even started filming for it. Apparently Kate Winslet and her then husband were going to use their film studio to retell the story of the Enigma machine (which broke the codes of German U-boats) thereby putting history straight and telling the film U571 to bog off. This is quite an elaborate way of doing it though it has to be said. I guess the complexities of the script owe much to Tom Stoppard who is good at weaving difficult fictional stories around historical fact (Shakespeare in love was great for Shakespeare bringing inspiration for his plays from his own life happenings). I loved what they did with this WWII story though, combining Romance and Spy novels into one - great stuff, haven't seen a good spy film in yonks. Dougray Scott is a codebreaker for the Government, he ...

treeman 17.10.2001 · Read full review
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