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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/reddittothegrave 10h ago

“He sacrificed his daughter for favorable winds.”

Fuck.

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u/TheHunterZolomon 9h ago

Having read Agamemnon in high school I knew about that part but damn that portrayal was savage, especially in that full armor that gave him his monstrous presence.

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u/DJFreezyFish 7h ago

I was really questioning his look in the promotional stuff, but the armor worked fantastic for the movie.

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u/ClubSoda 4h ago

Giving Darth Vader vibes for me.

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u/HockeyKelly5 1h ago

Especially when the soldiers are let into the city and he’s just standing there aura farming

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u/karateema 1h ago

Aura farming his way to his death

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u/HockeyKelly5 46m ago

His death was a guarantee when he sacrificed his daughter for better winds

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u/Keeper-of-Balance 4h ago

Yeah, I felt the same. Great presence. Then he comes back as a shade and actually gives Odysseus some advice.

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u/sirius4778 1h ago

God it was so cool

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u/smokeweedNgarden 49m ago

Oh, I'm so glad it wasn't Achilles!

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u/1mplication 2h ago

That shot of the gates opening and you see that hulking presence as the men charge all around him was so good.

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u/Scalar_Ng_Bayan 52m ago

Bro was pure aura the whole film even as a dead guy

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u/Mechanicallvlan 10h ago

That's also why Mary Poppins was childless, but they left that out of the films.

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 10h ago

To be fair, it did give her the ability to fly with an umbrella

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u/DustyDGAF 9h ago

Those are the favorable winds.

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u/Specific_Frame8537 7h ago

Shame about the airplane accident.

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u/sumofdeltah 2h ago

Anyone can shit themselves on an airplane, but its why she prefers umbrella with a dress for travel. To avoid the embarrassment

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u/rhunter99 9h ago

I’m Mary Poppins y’all!!!

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u/reddittothegrave 10h ago

The more you know! 🌈

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u/Tackit286 9h ago

Supercal-infanticidic-expialidociois!

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u/spacecowboybc 9h ago

Man what ?! lil durk voice

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u/Odessey_And_Oracle 4h ago

Child sacrifice: practically perfect in every way

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u/twavisdegwet 9h ago

Okay but like- hear me out...

it worked....

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u/WavesRKewl 9h ago

Sure but it also got him killed

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u/palpablebubble 9h ago

Kinda wish this was explored a bit more.

It was kind of like "Odysseus, don't go back home cause your wife will stab you (also I killed our kid but that's unrelated)." and Odysseus just went "yeah good advice" and that was it for lord magnamon lol

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u/Whoop-Sees 5h ago

It wasn’t “don’t go back home because your wife will stab you” it was “don’t expect that everything is the way you left it”. And he was right. If Odysseus had just rolled up he might have been killed.

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u/palpablebubble 5h ago

Sure but it still felt a bit strange that the advice has a tone of "don't do what I did and let your evil wife stab you" despite seeing the reason why the character (Helen's twin right?) did so, and then that whole thing isn't brought up again except to sort of come in handy for odysseus.

I guess it's more just a shame Helen and her twin weren't in the movie more, it felt like they were setting something up with them earlier on but then the film just moved on.

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u/FlameFeather86 2h ago

They mentioned in passing that her son, Orestes killed her to avenge Agamemnon, but his story after could make a movie in itself. He's wracked with guilt for killing his mother and seeks advice from the Oracle of Delphi who tells him everything he needs to do to clear his conscience, culminating in what is perceived to be the first civil trial (before Athena, no less) in Athens. It weirdly becomes the story of democracy.

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u/ScrawneyAardvark 1h ago

Thanks for sharing, I did not know his story

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u/Brandon_Me 9h ago

He should have had another kid so everyone could have made it back okay.

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u/HilariousScreenname 9h ago

I have a rock that keeps tigers away. Ever since Ive had it I haven't seen a single tiger.

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u/infiniteguest 1h ago

So did Hiroshima

It's a recurrent theme in Nolan's work. "We succeeded, at what cost?"

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u/bigjerfystyle 9h ago

And the delivery of that, with one image, and the comment landing on Penelope’s face and teary eyes, it just struck so hard. “That’s monstrous” she said, and it was like, yep, that’s the only word for it.

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u/cnapp 10h ago

He went full Stannis Beratheon

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u/iwanttodrink 9h ago

You never go full Stannis

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u/Mako022 1h ago

HBO* Stannis

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u/spqrnbb 10h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia_in_Aulis hoo boy.

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u/dohmestic 9h ago

Euripides was not fucking playing with that one.

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u/StrangeSemiticLatin2 8h ago

Cacoyannis's adaptation is phenomenal, just saying 

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u/king210989 6h ago

That happened in epic

He was later killed by his wife.

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u/imperatrixderoma 4h ago

That also happened in this movie lol

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u/ItsGotThatBang 7h ago

There’s a version where Artemis saves her & Clytemnestra isn’t informed.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 38m ago

"Oh hey, Clytee. So don't worry about your daughter I saved her at the last minute with a deer. Hope you didn't do anything rash, BYEEEEEEEEE"

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u/ssbmfgcia 5h ago

There's a version where Artemis replaces the daughter with a deer at the very last second

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u/boomzgoesthedynamite 4m ago

Odysseus was involved in that and convinced Iphigenia to “marry” Achilles so she’d come, so it threw me that the movie makes it seem like it happened before he joined.