The Odyssey

First ever film in Imax and it was so worth the money I spent to actually watch it. £35 it cost me for everything and it was all worth it. This is about the hate: All the hate that this film has gotten recently is either cherry picked or just larpers not watching and actually knowing the story of this film because everything they claimed wasnt true in this film. Now to unpack this beautiful film. Nolan is a genius and a master director. The first 10 minutes were partially boring, but that was just important dialogue that was needed for the film to progress. Tom and Anne did amazing in these scenes together. Then we get to odysseus and his crew, which is where the story truly begins. Everything is connected in this story due to odysseus (which is what the story revolves around). When they got to the first island with the cyclops on was genuinely terrifying, like my heart was racing, plus the Imax seats vibrating like crazy just made everything more and more real (i didn't explain that very well). Still the cyclops was truly scary, especially when they stab the giant in the eye and it started screaming, why was it so loudddddddd. Scary. Then odysseus thinks he is the shit and gets cocky by shooting it, killer move dude, just shoot the enormous monster that has killed over 10 of ur men. I thought odysseus was a smart guy. It is crazy how nolan used like minimal cgi for it. Then obviously the other islands happened and well they too were scary. That witch is a weird weird person but lowkey she had a good reason to do the things she did. I also don't know if she and the giants are on the same island. Then odysseus and the remaining men are trying to return home and shit but have to go to hades and meet all the dead guys blablabla (still peak as fuck tho), that part of the film looked incredible. Then once everything starts to come together it genuinely starts to become the best film ever. The attack on troy was so cool and why was Agamemnon aura farming like Darth Vader, he was so fucking cool and his armour was sick. I couldn't care less if it wasn't "accurate" if ur leader looks tuff there is a reason he looks tuff because he doesn't need "accurate" or "practical" armour. This film genuinely just reminded me of how genius it would be to commit a war crime through a wooden horse to obliterate your enemy. The final act of the film with odysseus was amazing, that guy has crazy combat skills and was cooking an entire room of warriors. Robert P's character is a genuine fraud which I guess his character is but it was pretty funny to see him hide behind a pillar telling them what to do whilst they was getting killed. But everything about this film was incredible, how it was filmed entirely on Imax 70mm will blow my mind. Every performance from every actors was oscar worthy. However, I feel that Zendaya was getting glazed a lil too much because there is no way she got multiple perfects from Nolan but she had like 4 scenes, still with great acting but Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway definitely were better, and maybe even Tom because this is probably his best acted film. It is also crazy because for once I didn't think that Tom was Spiderman, he did that well that I believed this was him as the character. And to address the elephant in the film (travis scott) he actually was good, Im saying if you didn't tell me that it was him then I may not of noticed the first time. However, I don't know whether this is better than Oppenheimer or Interstellar. It is a major mix between the two as they all have similar qualities (more Oppenheimer). This is always going to be a 5/5 for me.