Oppenheimer
"Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity"
A proper 3 Hour long Epic. Just when I thought Nolan has lost that spark he used to have, he came back with this. Literally his best work since Interstellar. Peak cinema through and through. Went straight into my Top 3 Nolan movies as soon as I saw it. It doesn't get more 5 stars than this. Nolan seriously locked in for this. How do you keep the audience engaged with this science/political drama for 181 minutes straight?. Every single person involved in this are at the peak of their careers. Cillian Murphy, who after being involved in so many cameo roles in Nolan movies finally gets to take the center stage as a Lead, and he does not take it lightly at all. Every single scene of him felt like he has been preparing for this for 20 years. Performance of a lifetime. One of the most well deserved oscar ever. On the other hand we had Robert Downey Jr, who many people, and I'll admit, me too, had written off as a "Entertainment", "Marvel-y" guy. He Comes back into his element and delivers one of the greatest anti-hero performance ever. I DID NOT know he had it in him. And he was wasting all his time on marvel. Every single Strauss scene was goated as hell. The dialogue delivery, the facial expressions, body language. Perfection. And all the side characters were also at their best. It's like everybody knew this was a serious fucking movie. So nobody was fucking around lol.
Along with the acting, the soundtrack was absolutely Godly. Like literally GOD was in the studio while making music for this movie. And obviously with Nolan, the movie was shot beautifully. So many frames from this movie are etched into my brain. The Trinity test scene, Oppenheimer's visions, Cillian just walking around after giving speeches, and that final look of Cillian as he imagined the whole world on fire. Peak cinema