Enigma

Enigma
by Michael Apted

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Actor: Dougray Scott, Jeremy Northam, Kate Winslet, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Saffron Burrows
Director: Michael Apted
Producer: Ate de Jong
Producer: David Brown
Producer: Guy East
Producer: Hanno Huth
Producer: Jeanney Kim
Writer: Robert Harris
Writer: Tom Stoppard
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of Enigma

DVD Review: Enigma
Summary: 5 Stars

This film is a valuable addition to anyone building a library of excellent acting, writing, and directing. Its historical setting, interesting characters, and believable conclusion results in a film worth seeing over and over again. It was good to know how many people found "Enigma" to be a great contribution to film archives.

DVD Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars

The Bottom Line:

A rather tepid thriller that wastes a quietly interesting performance by Kate Winslet, Enigma follows a bored Dougray Scott through a pedestrian series of events--look elsewhere.

DVD Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this movie for the first time this month (Nov.2008) and can't believe I some how missed it in the theaters.
I highly recommend this if you like Kate Winslet as I she played a great part in the film.
I also never knew much about the German Enigma machine, so this movie really perked my interest in it's use and origin.
Keeps you interested the whole time you're watching.
Ed

DVD Review: Enigma
Summary: 4 Stars

Enigma is a very interesting look at code breaking and espionage in Britain during World War II. The two main stars, Dougray Scott and Kate
Winslet do a wonderful job of portraying two intelligence people who
uncover clues that lead to the breaking of the German Enigma machine which
had been used to encrypt German messages between submarines. There is
action interspersed with suspense and a great supporting cast. I highly
recommend it.

DVD Review: A Graham Greene-ian Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars

"Enigma" is an absorbing World War II drama of suspense as long as one takes it as what Graham Greene called "an entertainment" and does not press it too hard for historical accuracy. Because it has several subplots, which become clear only after repeated viewings, the movie leaves the viewer grasping at a few loose ends that are never tied up completely. With an intelligent script by playwright Tom Stoppard, "Enigma" works best when it focuses upon the Bletchley Park team of classicists, mathematicians, and other academics working on cracking the intercepts of German submarine traffic in the North Atlantic. It works less well when it veers off into car, train, and motorboat chases. Nevertheless, clever plot twists, atmospheric English locations, and a talented cast, which includes Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Tom Hollander, Matthew MacFadyen, and Corin Redgrave, ensure that the viewer will be thoroughly entertained.

Description of Enigma

In this twisty thriller about Britain's secret code breakers during World War II, Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott, best known as the villain of Mission Impossible 2) devised the means to break the Nazi Enigma code, but a relationship gone awry sent the erratic genius into a breakdown. Now the Nazis have switched their codes, just as huge convoys of ships with crucial supplies are crossing the Atlantic--and squads of U-boats are hunting for them. With the help of his former lover's roommate (the ever-adorable Kate Winslet) and under the watchful eye of a suspicious intelligence officer (Jeremy Northam), Jericho struggles to figure out if there's a spy among the code breakers as they fight to crack the new Nazi ciphers. The plot gets extremely tricky but the excellent cast keeps you engaged. Written by the extremely tricky playwright-screenwriter Tom Stoppard (who cowrote Shakespeare in Love and Brazil). --Bret Fetzer

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