Filmbros and nolanators are gonna kill me for this, but The Odyssey is a mess of a movie. Enjoyable, visually stunning, mostly well acted, but messy.
The tone feels inconsistent and its obvious that Nolan wasnt sure if he wanted a regular period fantasy action epos or a highconcept wild ride like green knight. So we end up with bold anachronistic stylistic choices (the costumes, some of the battle scenes, the score) and changes to try and make the mythological source material seem more grounded or realistic (leaving out more "hard to believe" parts of the myths, making the trojan war explicitly about trade routes).
Ppl were making a big stink about Lupita and Elliot being unfitting or unrealiatic for their roles, but, and i really do mean this, those two are among the most believable in their roles. You know who ACTUALLY took me out of the story? Matt Damon. Charlize Theron. Tom Holland. Jon Bernthal. And, sorry to say it bc i love them, Rpattz and Zendaya. Waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy too many a-listers, holy shit. Every scene was like "wait xy is in this movie???" Fully ruined the immersion even if the performances were good.
Notable performances: Anne Hathaway, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Lupita and Elliot
The last hour is just straight up a John Wick sequence. If i have to hear the words "zeus's law" one more time, bruuuhhh and also the use of "mom" and "dad"???
Also the way they presented Agamemnon as a character was so cool, so captivating and so utterly WASTED on the character of Agamemnon. Like you can teally tell Nolan had this visual in his head, but nowhere to put it in the movie so he gave it to AGAMEMNON.
I would commend the movie for not portraying Odysseus and his crew as heroes, but the last half hour fight scene of the movie ruined that notion. We start with a very critical view on Odysseus and his crew, how they attack other settlements, are seen as villains and earn the consequences for stupid decisions, but in the end he gets to have this incredibly indulgent one man army fight scene, a fakeout death in his wifes arms and "exile" (cough vacation cough) to the west. Like....... the last part of the movie felt like an entirely different genre and it was a hard watch.
Also i hate that they made Helen apologise, lmao literally what for??