The Odyssey 2026

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• CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20267/10

  With a production design worthy of Sir Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan takes us into antiquity for his take on the second instalment of Homer's Trojan War stories. I have to say it's maybe not the most impressive of wooden horses that is left as a tribute for the maybe just a little too gullible Trojans, but now we know that this decade-long siege has all ended in a mighty conflagration and that Odysseus (Matt Damon) is keen on returning to Ithaca where his wife and son await him. On that island, though, strife is rife. Penelope (Anne Hathaway) is being besieged by an army of suitors like Antinous (Robert Pattinson) and the young Telemachus (Tom Holland) isn't really best equipped to step in and protect his mother from their machinations. Now flitting between the island's domestic issues and the legendary trials of the returning husband, Nolan tries to weave the two threads together in quite a compelling fashion. The snag for me throughout this epic drama is that we spent too much time on Ithaca with the family issues and not enough time with Odysseus and his crew as they faced a plethora of deadly foes and evil temptations as they traversed the Mediterranean. Too many of their adv

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• Brent Marchanton TMDB · Jul 20267/10

  As one of the 2026 summer movie season’s most anticipated releases, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s screen adaptation of Homer’s literary epic, The Odyssey, has generated more than its share of reactions and for a variety of reasons. So I’ll come right to the point on my view of this release: I liked it, but I didn’t love it. This retelling of the diverse experiences of Greek warrior Odysseus (Matt Damon) on returning to his Grecian home of Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War explores the many adventures and profound soul-searching of his 10-year journey, the second half of a 20-year-long absence. Waiting for him back home are his devoted wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), who has long been courted by a band of would-be suitors like Antinous (Robert Pattinson) who believe her husband is dead, and Telemachus (Tom Holland), the son who’s never met his father and stands to succeed him as King of Ithaca should he be officially declared deceased. This historic drama, a common reading selection in many high school English lit classes, thus follows the intrigue and adventures from the perspectives of the trip and the homefront, many of which viewers are likely to find familiar in thi

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• AlphaLuciferon TMDB · Jul 20261/10

  The hype was massive, the crowd was packed, but the boredom in the theatre at the end credits said it all. A 172-minute film felt like it was a 6+ hour watch. This isn’t a respectful adaptation of Homer’s epic; it’s a bloated, self-important disaster that butchers the source material, erases Greek identity, and rams woke DEI nonsense down your throat while delivering some of the worst big-name acting I’ve seen in years. Right from the opener, it was clear Nolan had zero interest in Homer’s actual text. Instead of going back to the original Greek or a faithful classic translation, he based the whole thing on Emily Wilson’s modern, feminist-slanted version, that crappy, agenda-driven reinterpretation that twists the poem’s language, downplays traditional heroism, and injects contemporary gender politics. No wonder the soul is missing. **_The Odyssey_** is the foundational poem of Western civilisation, cunning, nostos, divine meddling, human endurance, told in sweeping oral poetry. Nolan reduces it to mere nothingness. Matt Damon as Odysseus is the biggest miscast of all; he sleepwalks through it like a tired Jason Bourne in a chiton, delivering flat quips with zero charisma or bronze

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