The film revolves around mathematician Tom Jericho who tries to race against time. Tom tries daily to break the rules of mathematics to break time and solve the mystery related to the woman he loves.
The combined talents of Apted, Stoppard and the stellar cast make Enigma a puzzle worth solving.
EmanuelLevy.Com
June 22, 2006
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.
Jericho and Hester spend so much time on investigative idylls in the damp spring countryside that spy work starts to seem like a military garden party.
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.
