I feel like a lot of movies, especially this one, could be improved if directors would put themselves in the audience's shoes rather than just making whatever bloated, overwrought film that they envisioned from the start. I imagined that the film was going to be more about Oppenheimer and the making of the bomb itself, his personal struggles with it, etc, and the movie did get into that, but then it went into a whole giant secondary storyline about Oppenheimer's supposed Communist ties and whether he was actually loyal to the United States. Nolan needed an editor because I thought it was just too much ground to try to cover in a single film, and it was a real challenge from a viewer's standpoint to stay engaged for the duration. Of course, it seems like the content of the movie was just too straight forward for Nolan's liking, so he had to give us all this choppy storytelling, cutting from scene to scene and timeline to timeline, which made the film hard to follow and gave it a disjointed feeling. Sometimes directors are their own worst enemies in that way. I loved the cinematography. I will say that while the almost silent, surreal scene just after the test bomb went off, was a really nice touch, when the audio came back in full force, and we heard the bomb go off, it scared the shit out of me. I'm glad I went and ponied up the money to see it in the theater, but it was long. and Nolan and Co. tried to fit too much into the film. The highlights for me acting wise were Robert Downey Jr, Cillian Murphy and Gary Oldman as Truman.
Review by Jeremy StyronBlockedParent2023-07-26T02:34:33Z
I feel like a lot of movies, especially this one, could be improved if directors would put themselves in the audience's shoes rather than just making whatever bloated, overwrought film that they envisioned from the start. I imagined that the film was going to be more about Oppenheimer and the making of the bomb itself, his personal struggles with it, etc, and the movie did get into that, but then it went into a whole giant secondary storyline about Oppenheimer's supposed Communist ties and whether he was actually loyal to the United States. Nolan needed an editor because I thought it was just too much ground to try to cover in a single film, and it was a real challenge from a viewer's standpoint to stay engaged for the duration. Of course, it seems like the content of the movie was just too straight forward for Nolan's liking, so he had to give us all this choppy storytelling, cutting from scene to scene and timeline to timeline, which made the film hard to follow and gave it a disjointed feeling. Sometimes directors are their own worst enemies in that way. I loved the cinematography. I will say that while the almost silent, surreal scene just after the test bomb went off, was a really nice touch, when the audio came back in full force, and we heard the bomb go off, it scared the shit out of me. I'm glad I went and ponied up the money to see it in the theater, but it was long. and Nolan and Co. tried to fit too much into the film. The highlights for me acting wise were Robert Downey Jr, Cillian Murphy and Gary Oldman as Truman.