Review: The Odyssey (2026)

At some point in high school we read the Odyssey, and I really enjoyed it. I did not like Christopher Nolan's version.

Rating: 4/10

It really felt like he had read all of the different scenes in the story, figured out how to film them and then just shipped it as a movie. Anytime you base a movie off an established book (or poem!), there's a higher bar to clear to make it an engaging story, which wasn't met here.

Emily Wilson's critique resonated with me a lot. I can think of no good reason why you wouldn't include the whole "no man" gambit with the cyclops (and the cyclops didn't even look like what I imagined cyclopses look like).

It's funny that my main critique of a three-hour film is that it felt abridged and didn't go into suffient detail. Should've been a trilogy.