Enigma

Enigma is a turgid muddle of romance, espionage, and geek valor. The legend of how the British cracked the German Enigma code during World War II must have sounded, on paper, like a nifty mathematical thriller. On screen, it plays as if the scriptwriter, Tom Stoppard, and the director, Michael Apted, were themselves cryptographers; they seem to be making hunt-and-peck stabs at how to translate a tale of arcane numeric formulas into drama. As Tom Jericho, a Cambridge genius who looks like he might be the hero of ”A Reasonably Dapper-Looking Mind,” Dougray Scott is even glummer than he was in M:I-2. C-