As 2025 rolled into 2026, the entire world got a glimpse at Christopher Nolan’s next epic, The Odyssey. Semantically speaking, The Odyssey is the first epic of all time, a super-long poem attributed to the Greek writer Homer, but only turned into a book in the 1400s, though it was likely passed down through the oral tradition for centuries and centuries before that. The story is set in roughly 1184 BC, after the hero, Odysseus (Matt Damon), fought in the Trojan Wars. As many are probably aware, the story of The Odyssey is the journey of Odysseus and his soldiers back to their home of Ithaca, the long way around.
And, if you’re looking for a general reaction from the public — and not very-online film buff world — the general sense of the trailer is that it’s a little...meh. Several Redditors said they thought the trailer was “boring,” which was echoed all over X, as well. And while some folks are taking issue with the sort of drab, serious tone of the trailer (which, appropriately or not, feels very much like Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies), the truth is, The Odyssey trailers need to be boring because otherwise, we’ll get all the best stuff too quickly.
