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| Movies,
Graham Bower,
31 October 2001 |
Rating: F3
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This fast moving wartime thriller keeps you guessing till the end. One of the things you’ll find yourself guessing about is why they chose to cast Dougray Scott as the brainy but geeky mathematician with a hapless love life. Scott’s physical appearance does not fit the part, and his total lack of geekyness is at odds with his character. Kate Winslett geeks it up a storm, and is in fact a real scene stealer.
It’s hard not to like Enigma. Set in Second World War England it tells the story of a brilliant mathematician who cracks the enigma code used by German u-boats. When sexy Saffron Burrows walks into his life he totally loses the plot and starts leaking state secrets left, right and centre. Enter Jeremy Northam, the smiling detective who doggedly peruses hapless Scott throughout the movie. A likeable smartass, Northam knowing laidback air of 1940’s nonchalance would be the perfect antitdote to Scott’s geekiness – if only Scott could do geek.
There’s not a whole heap of action in this movie, and not a great deal of mathematics either, despite the subject matter. Instead suspense and lightweight psychological drama is the order of the day. And it plays out very well – I was actually both surprise and convinced by the end.
The rubber lipped wonder Mick Jagger was responsible for this little number, and as his first producer credit, he’s done rather well – more successful perhaps that some of his ill advised rock jaunts.
UK rating:
15
US rating:
PG-13
Michael Apted
Saffron Burrows, Nikolaj Coster-Wadau, Tom Hollander, Matthew McFadyen, Jeremy Northam, Robert Pugh, Corin Redgrave, Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet
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