Variety

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has finally been unveiled to members of the film press, who are calling the Oscar winner’s adaptation of Homer’s epic a “staggering achievement” with “flawless filmmaking.” It appears Nolan has another huge hit on his hands.

“A filmmaking feast,” wrote Collider’s Peri Nemiroff. “A grand and gripping rendition of Homer’s epic, and one that feels uniquely Christopher Nolan. It’s sincerely hard to imagine any other filmmaker on the planet being able to bring that source material to screen with this much scale, scope and heart.”

Well, it seems that The Odyssey is going to be a massive hit for Universal Pictures and Christopher Nolan. I hope that film goers support the film, and that it makes a billion dollars at the worldwide box-office. Always an innovator, Nolan absolutely deserves success with this film, just for the scale of it. I just wish that we had an IMAX theatre in Christchurch, as the film needs to be seen on the largest screen available. I still might make the effort to see it at a cinema nearby. If I do it will be the first film that I will have seen at the cinema since Avatar 3D (2009). The official run time is 2:52, a long time between comfort breaks. 😟