Was looking for something familiar and non demanding. Think this is about the third time I've watched it since it was released 5 years ago. That's pushing it for me. I'll be retiring this for at least the next 5 years. Probably longer.
Visually I still don't have problem with the MGM release. Looks right on to me, though I made a mistake not disengaging the dynamic iris for this.

Early "body horror" from Cronenberg has Marilyn Chambers becoming a typhoid Mary after an experimental emergency surgical procedure has unexpected consequences.
Blind buy that I was hoping would click with me, but didn't. Cronenberg's ambition and inexperience are both on display though the later is mostly only noticeable in the finessing of some set pieces that would be a challenge for any lower budgeted production like this.
I know some fans have expressed issues with the color timing. I have no idea what this originally looked like theatrically- but I doubt it looked like this. While skin tones appear close, denim (for one thing) looks too green and the film as a whole had an unappealing visual aesthetic via this Bd for me.
Cool looking steelbook though
Oh well.

Was expecting to like this and I did. Quite a bit. Left a significantly deeper impression than Apted's Enigma from over a decade and a half ago. I realize there were some liberties taken with the material here, but in terms of taking the various elements and pulling them together to craft an experience that felt whole and has a point, I can't really fault it. Excellent work all around, in front of and behind the camera, with a big surprise for me being just how solid Cumberbatch's performance was. Despite the enormous on paper similarities to Sherlock Holmes more notorious personality traits, I never once felt like I was watching a simple variation on a theme. His Turing felt like a fully inhabited and absorbed persona.
Will be buying a copy as soon as it hits $10 or under.