'The Imitation Game' release date, trailer: Benedict Cumberbatch in impressive performance [WATCH]

(PHOTO: REUTERS/FRED THORNHILL)Actor Benedict Cumberbatch attends a news conference for the film ''The Fifth Estate'' at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto September 6, 2013.

'Sherlock' star Benedict Cumberbatch was truly the highlight of the film 'The Imitation Game,' in which he plays British mathematician Alan Mathison Turing, who was also a logician, cryptanalyst and philosopher.

Turing worked in the 1940's to crack the German enigma code, offering his intellectual ability to help the allies win World War II. Written by Graham Moore, the script is undoubtedly smart and NPR lauded Cumberbatch for his manner of portraying Turing, and says that his shy approach matched the Turing's secret of being gay back then.

In the 1950's being homosexual was almost considered a crime, so as a man who is working closely with the government, and whose intellectual ability was always on the table, Turing kept his real personality all to himself.

Turing's job was to crack the code of the Enigma Machine, a device that the Nazi's used to communicate with each other.

Kiera Knightley stars alongside Cumberbatch as Joan Clarke, a colleague that had true faith in what Turing does. Mattew Goode plays Turing's colleague, Hugh Alexander, who was a skillful chess master, writer, and cryptanalyst.

Mark Strong, on the other hand, plays Maj. Gen. Stewart Menzies, the chief of the British Intelligence Service at that time, who served during 1939 and 1952. Game of Thrones star, Charles Dance, plays Cdr. Alastair Denniston, a British code breaker who headed the Government Code and Cypher School.

The Imitation Games premieres in the United States on November 28.

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