i be the sort of person who go down to the local library and read book on babbage difference engine whilst my schoolmate be play football etc . so and if there be any such thing a a target audience for this film and then i guess i would probably be include in that . maybe i just need to watch it again . a previous reviewer mention not to watch this film whilst be tire . maybe that be my mistake . i try my best to enjoy this film and and there be aspect of it that i do like and but overall i find it amateurish and quite plodding . be somewhat of a self confess computer nerd and i just can not help but pick up on the exact time frame when the movie be actually make and and how the employed graphic reflect that time ( i. e. 1997 ) . have play game of the era c. f. mind grind to cite one example and this film can not escape that 16 bit colour low re multimedia explosion of that time . now thankfully this have somewhat lessen in more recent year in the gaming world at least and in favour of actual game play . have to resort to watch this movie via a german fta satellite channel ( a i do not think it ever be air on uk fta tv and well not recently anyway ) and i be mildly amuse to see the end credit note gottdog ( god dog ) have 4 people work on it design . maybe it mean spirit of me to be amuse by this and give that ten year have elapse since the movie be make and nevertheless the end result make movie graphic from the eighty look good by comparison . but and a for the main story and i agree that the format isn not the best idea . like others i agree that ada deserve a film without the sci fi angle and and a more straightforward biographical approach would perhaps be well suit to cover the life story of this remarkable lady . there be fundamental mistake that undermine my enjoyment of this movie . first of all the underlie idea that somehow lose real world information from the past can be accurately reconstruct through some sort of extrapolation via software base intelligent agent and seem somehow ludicrous . also and the theme run through the movie that a compute device can indeed predict the mechanic of all thing through the course of time ( e. g. the wind ) be now know not to be the case . ok and so the victorian may have hold this view and but the 20th century work of gödel prove that no mathematical system can be complete and turing work on the limit of computability and not to mention chaos theory and quantum mechanic and have all completely undermine these idea and which seem central to how the modern day researcher software be suppose to work . finally and the clicking of the mouse in the air to mean programming be also just plain wrong and a previously mention . this film maybe could have be ok and but at least some technical and scientific consultation would have give the film some much need credit in the believability stake . i would not forget the film though and a like pi and it be clearly a unique work and but with too many fatal mistake for me to truly enjoy it and negative from me .