Review of Oppenheimer (2023) by Tankre — 23 Jul 2023
Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite directors, so I left Oppenheimer sorely disappointed.
The entire movie jumps around between four timelines which is jaring, but the real problem with the movie is that it tries to cram in so much material that it doesn't leave enough time to develop any of the characters other than Openheimer. Every scene in the first forty minutes we're so rushed and then abruptly cut, that it felt like watching a recap on a trailer continuously.
As much as I love RDJ, the movie would have been better if they just cut out his character. I can tell you that by the end of the movie, no one cared about Lewis Strauss or his ambition to become a cabinet member to Eisenhower. The film did a poor job of developing Strauss as an antagonist. In the same vein, the film also does a poor job developing Kitty.
Overall, it's an okay movie, but it definitely does not live up to the hype, and it has been done before, but much, much better. This summer if you're looking for a film about a tortured scientist who gathers a crack team of brilliant minds to help end WW2 and changed the world forever, only to be discarded and persecuted after the war... I recommend you watch The Imitation Game.
This review of Oppenheimer (2023) was written by Tankre on 23 Jul 2023.
Oppenheimer has generally received very positive reviews.
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