(rated TBD, 117 mins.)
Enigma is based on the thrilled by Robert Harris and blessed with a smart script. Mick Jagger (yeah, that one) and Lorne Michaels produce a story about the code breakers at Bletchley Park, Britain’s top secret Station X in 1943, facing their worst nightmare: Nazi U boats have unexpectedly changed the code by which they communicate with each other and German High Command. An Allied merchant shipping convoy crossing the Atlantic with 10,000 passengers and vital supplies is in danger of attack. The authorities turn for help to Tom Jericho, (Dougray Scott) a tortured mathematical genius for help. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, Jericho has another equally baffling enigma to unravel: Claire (Saffron Burrows), the woman with whom he has fallen in love that has disappeared. Enlisting the help of Hester, Claire’s best friend (Kate Winslet), to find her they get to the bottom of all kinds of juicy stuff. The movie is not your typical Hollywood style picture but the acting carries it and manages to keep us guessing. Burrows is very sexy as the femme fatale that gets the plot rolling and Winslet as always, is at home in these “Titanic” style films. For this she comes off part Nancy Drew and part Florence Nightengale and seeming to enjoy both.