Sentences with phrase «codebreaker who»
The film examines the life of Alan Turing, a codebreaker who is credited with breaking the German Enigma Code during WWII.
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Director Morten Tyldum («Headhunters») and writer Graham Moore sketch out Turing's initial conflicts with his Bletchley colleagues (led by Matthew Goode, with Charles Dance and Mark Strong playing the bosses) and his friendship with fellow codebreaker Joan Clarke (nicely underplayed by Keira Knightley), who was briefly his fiancée.
Benedict Cumberbatch has enjoyed a fairly varied career, having proven that he can play a famous detective, a greedy dragon, a narcissistic sorcerer, a giant CG demon (in the same movie), a renegade hacker who has been accused of sexual assault, and a genius codebreaker, but now he's signed on to play another...
Meanwhile, steely Ed Harris makes his second appearance of the year as a Nazi of some kind (the other being in Enemy at the Gates), a «man in black» who recruits Nash as a codebreaker in search of Russian agents smuggling parts for a portable nuclear bomb into the United States.
The film is about Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing and also stars Keira's fellow Brit Benedict Cumberbatch, who the actress said it was «lovely to work with».
This portion of the film is also saddled with a subplot involving Finn (John Boyega), the conscientious Storm Trooper - turned - Rebel hero who seemed all but dead at the end of The Force Awakens, and Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), a Rebel mechanic who first idolizes him and then joins him on the seemingly impossible mission of tracking down a master codebreaker to help them sneak onto one of the First Order's ships and disable their tracking system.
In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandinsky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel Sáenz, Black Chamber's most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once supposed.