In time for the holidays, "The Imitation Game" will be released this weekend, telling the exciting story of World War II code-breakers and the scientific precision behind modern intelligence today.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the historical drama about the real-life story of Alan Turing, known for fathering the modern computer, then called the Turing machine.  

The Cambridge graduate worked during the war as a part of the military team who tried to break the Nazis' complicated Enigma code. Despite the frustrations of his superior officers, team leader Hugh Alexander played by Matthew Goode and Charles Dance, who plays Army Commander Denniston.

Turing's odd personality, perhaps a bit machine-like himself, makes him difficult to work with, but determined in his mission of creating a way to crack the code.

"What if only a machine could defeat another machine?" he questions.

Written by Graham Moore and directed by Morten Tyldum, the "Imitation Game" shows Turing as a tortured-genius who is aware of how his intelligence alienates others around him, but lacking in how he can resolve it. Instead, he focuses on how to outthink and outplay obstacles in his life, mainly focused on the Nazi Enigma code.

His only seeming human side is brought out in his secret sexuality and by the appearance of Joan Clarke, the team's only woman, portrayed by Keira Knightley. His homosexual activities were illegal in Britain during that time, and as a cover, even proposes to Clarke.

Cumberbatch has been receiving marvelous reviews for his complicated performance of the mathematician.

"One of the most smartly judged, truly feeling movies of the year or its most towering, magnetic performance," Time reviewer Richard Corliss said of the film. "And though the star's achievement should be its own reward, [Cumberbatch] is sure to receive many prizes this Oscar season. He deserves a Cumberbatch of them."

"The Imitation Game" will be released in theaters Friday, Nov. 28.