Wednesday 25 February 2009

Enigma (2001) 7/10

Starring : Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam
Director : Michael Apted
Running Time : 116 mins

Boffin code breaker Tom Jericho (Scott) finds himself caught up in a potential case of espionage when he starts to suspect his girlfriend Claire (Burrows) may be a German spy, so he sets about trying to figure out what information has gone missing, with the help of a colleague named Hester (Winslet).

This is an entertaining and thought provoking movie which doesn't speak down to its audience. There are some solid performances as well as some cliched ones, but Winslet really steals the show as Hester Wallace, giving a wit and intelligence to the character that many of the other characters in this movie were lacking.

You’ll like this if you liked : The English Patient

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