Imitation? then someone lost that game. The real Turing had nothing to do with the portrayal done by Broomface Cumberbatch. It's like hesaid "meh, let's just make a not funny Sheldon Cooper". And he has been doing the same character everywhere... The movie also fails to portray the real development of the Enigma machine. They show it as the work of just one man everyone thinks he is crazy, when it was the product of several teams with hundreds of people. And most of the key events were just made up.
But at least the movie serves to teach people about the life (or at least the existence) of a great man who was forgotten by history, so that's why I still give it an 8. Also, it never gets boring, it's enjoyable, even if you already know they are making up most of it.
It shouldn't be classified as biopic, but as historical fiction.
Entertaining movie, yet could have been a lot better if it had been closer to the book. I understand the removal of some elements from the book... but in the end, the only element they took from it is the fact that the main character steals the uniform from a corpse in a car. Everything else is made up.
