The reviews are in for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and critics are calling it “a filmmaking feast”. Clocking in at almost three hours, the latest movie from the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer director is by all accounts an epic in every sense of the word, boasting a star-studded cast, a $250 million budget and the sort of sprawling scale that can only be captured in glorious IMAX.
As Nolan revealed to The Independent earlier this week, he’s wanted to make a grand movie in the swords-and-sandals tradition for over two decades, since he was briefly attached to direct Brad Pitt in Troy. Since then, of course, Nolan has been on something of an odyssey himself, conquering Hollywood with his acclaimed Batman trilogy and exploring science fiction in films such as Inception and Interstellar.
