Walking into my advance screening of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” earlier this week, I was certain of one thing: Nolan would deliver the kind of artistically ambitious spectacle that’s rarely seen in Hollywood anymore. Regardless of how engaged I am in any given Christopher Nolan movie, I always appreciate his tenacity in taking hundreds of millions of dollars from a major studio to bring his own particular vision to life. I got to see “The Odyssey” in 70mm, and Nolan is pretty much the only filmmaker who can bully an anonymous multiplex like my local AMC theater into showing a movie on film.
So I can’t say that I was disappointed by “The Odyssey.” Yet unlike what seems like the majority of film critics (including TG’s Malcolm McMillan), I wasn’t blown away, and I doubt “The Odyssey” will make my top 10 list at the end of the year.
