Film Review of Enigma
Year: 2001 Reviewer: Chris Docker
Kate Winslet gets a nice serious (if rather mumsy and bespectacled) role in this wartime psychological thriller about cracking the `enigma' code that was used by the Nazis. Apparently Mick Jagger owns an original four-rotor Enigma encoding machine and he loaned it to the film for historical accuracy in constructing props. The whole film reeks not only of accuracy but of fine performances, a brilliant script by Tom Stoppard, and seat-edge excitement. It's an intellectually challenging film, not only because of the need to keep up with the logic of how they tackle the breaking of the code (which is the central plot) but also in the subplot which is an engaging love story that questions face-values and reality and illusions in different types of loving.
Rating: 8/10
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