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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

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u/NothingButLs 9h ago

The scene where Odysseus and Penelope speak through the door really floored me. That moment  made the movie click into place and I think rewatches will be very rewarding knowing Odysseus guilt and regret and struggle from the start.  So many other memorable and amazing sequences. The Cyclopes, Circie, and Troy scenes are all timers. 

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u/configurethepup 9h ago

I loved watching the light on the screen in that scene. Mesmerizing.

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u/Sweet-Bodybuilder250 6h ago

It mirrored a Catholic confession booth

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u/Few_Pride_5836 4h ago

Yeah.  I was thinking the same thing.  I'm sure that's the look it was going for. 

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u/MrBrownCat 6h ago

100% it made all the talk of him not wanting to go home click as you fully realize the extent to which he felt guilty for everything that happened.

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u/mrcarlita 7h ago

Troy was so incredible I can't get over it

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u/Lazywhale97 6h ago

My only real complaint about the Troy flashbacks is when they showed the city from the outside and it didn't look like a impenetrable city like it did in the film Troy BUT that's a small nitpick because everything else about the Troy scenes were incredible.

"10 years of rage unleashed in one night" was such a great line to seamlessly put us into the horrors that Odysseus saw

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u/We_ReallyOutHere 6h ago

Incredible, and extremely timely with our current world issues, line. Despite being 3k years old text that he's adapting, Nolan is screaming to our modern world with the subtext

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u/Additional_Crew_9445 5h ago

That subtext is all there in the original, if not even more explicit, it’s a perfect time for this to be adapted

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u/Threadheads 6h ago

Kinda reminded me of that scene in Paris, Texas, which, thinking on it now, was probably inspired in some way by the Odyssey.

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u/thefrayedfiles 4h ago

It coats the whole movie into a deeper meaning - up until that moment I kept thinking "ok this is a great movie but I'm not sure it beats interstellar for me" and then that moment recontextualizes everything and left me absolutely bawling and floored at the magnitude of humanity's mistakes. Unbelievable.

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u/BrolecopterPilot 6h ago

I can’t fucking wait to rewatch this movie. It might be the first movie I buy tickets for again

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u/300andWhat 6h ago

Man, I had the opposite experience. It felt like a slow slog.

Overall an okay movie, 6/10, but rather slow paced and boring. Also pretty much paint by the numbers of the Odyssey. Thought almost everyone was cast well, except Athena, she was the low point of the movie.

The message also felt hamfisted and beat you over the head with it .