Nolan’s simplest and most sublime magnum opus Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie...
Nolan’s simplest and most sublime magnum opus
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt
Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek,
Kenneth Branagh, Michael Angarano
Rating: 4.5/5
Nolan has never been good at expressing emotionality in his films visually or through exposition. The exposition in his films feels very bland and for the most part, very scientific, as it's a film in which half the runtime is consumed by characters teaching us quantum science. But, Oppenheimer is so compelling that nobody ever thinks of connecting to the characters.
While this isn’t Nolan’s most personal film, there are times when the whole film feels like the filmmaking process but that thought doesn’t last long. The viewer is brought immediately back to the real world in which this film is a biopic due to the excessively loud sound design, which is incredible but also damaging to the ears in IMAX. There are loud quick sounds that make the viewer deaf for a second here and there, and there are times when the dialogue can’t be heard due to the excessively loud sound design - something clearly Nolan loved doing in Tenet.
Oppenheimer chronicles the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, making him both a creator and a destroyer.
Oppenheimer
feels way too long and you can definitely feel the time hanging, the pace not helping
that much either. The film is technically brilliant in all ways possible. Nolan the director
is at the top of his game with superb editing.
This
might as well be Nolan’s bleakest film to date. Nolan knew who to cast and who
not to in this - Cillian Murphy is the perfect choice for the role of J. Robert
Oppenheimer. Murphy is able to convey what the character is feeling despite
being stone-faced for most of the runtime, thus, giving a performance that is
sure to win him the Best Actor Oscar. Robert Downey Jr. gives an Oscar-winning
performance as well. Matt Damon is the weakest of the lot.
A film made solely for IMAX screens, Oppenheimer may be rivetting
for some and bland for others.
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