The Odyssey 2026 by AverageMansReviews
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Warning:
there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/animal
cruelty/environmental/burning/impaling/stabbing/shooting/drugs/religion/slavery/medical
A Bourne, a Bat, a Cat a Punisher,
a Ground sloth a Raiden, a Spider and his wife: briefly; this is about the journey of Odysseus [Matt
Damon:] he is King Ithaca/the leader of his army of being victorious and now
wants to get home to his Queen of Ithaca Penelope [Aaron Hathaway:] she is a
strong will Queen of Ithaca, they have a son by the name of Telemachus [Tom
Holland:] a headstrong off-spring and means well, but is still a bit young in
the ways of how things are done, but he will learn; they just may have a very
long wait to see each other again though.
Generally speaking: the storyline/script is okay if that is the way they
wanted to go with it, but the exposition character developments, coinciding
with the framework and the pacing of this 172 minutes film best described for
its vast majority [minus roughly the last 30 minutes] as diabolical; I mean
what were they thinking? What with these exposition character developments of
previous events being a consistent theme/including ongoing/present events and on
top of that after going down a rabbit hole to then be basically be picked up
and then dropped off in a different section of the storyline and possibly from
time to time repeat the cycle or develop that section further and then go
somewhere else and so on and so forth for at least roughly 134 minutes is
insufferable.
There
is absolutely no consistency, or gusto or enthusiasm for as I have already
indicated a large amount of this film; so you can't just sit down and watch
this film you have to go through the agonising thing of; where are we now? Who
are we with? And etc? And for the pacing... What pacing? But can be brutally
honest what chance has it got of any form of pacing is it has to get picked up
and put down again until the closing section of this movie...
What
they should have done is... use a chapter by chapter divider in this movie and
by doing so in theory they could have given this film is supremely better
structure and consequently enthusiastic pacing; you see by using this
method/outlay it would have limited the moving around and at the beginning and
at the end of every chapter they could have gone to a different location within
the storyline and focus on that until the end of the chapter and then repeat
the method until the method/storylines are coinciding one another in the final
section, I mean they should still use the chapter method from beginning to end;
let's just say the final chapter would be a big final chapter.
Art
and action; now we come to the strongest assets to this project by some
distance actually a lot of distance like a trip around the world distance; the
visual aspects of this project are everything that you have been preconditioned
by the trailers to expect as they are of the most high qualities be it the
detail on the Trojan horse and how they moved it in, to the Cyclops and its
unique take on how they Cyclops should look like and its subsequent action
sequence and/or the Laestrygonians [basically giant silver knights;] which
there is a drop of comedy here as someone from Odysseus' army attacks one of
the young to begin this conflict which really wasn't a smart move and we have
this sequence in the underworld as well which is another sequence from an
artistic perspective of a high the highest calibre and a little while later obviously
the action sequence as well.
Character
developments, performances and voice performances; on one hand because of
everything I have already referenced as it relates to the exposition character
developments, framework and pacing; I would say the character developments are
at best functional[ I mean as best as it gets is where; without giving too much
away is Odysseus is carrying something around with him] and at worst what was the point, but on the
other hand if you want me to be completely honest; I felt absolutely nothing
for these characters, if you can work out starting line of this content; those
are the positive performances at they really have to work hard to create any
form chemistry/cohesiveness to navigate this framework and pacing, the rest are
either solid or functional or yet again what was the point? And the voice performance
is good.
This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; yes this film may look nice,
but it is hard work and becomes more and more like a chore to watch and not
forgetting there are some in cast that what was the point of them being there
other than virtual signalling garbage, quite frankly this film is very lucky to
have the visual images it has at its disposal mixed with some performers that
literally hold this film together and as the person that I watch some of this
content said; I am paraphrasing that; they could easily make this into a
two-hour film and the last half an hour or so is really good fun. This film
also has some awards accredited to its name; like 2 Winners Heartland Film 2026
Truly Moving Picture Award Truly Moving Picture Award Christopher Nolan
(director) and Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026 Astra Midseason Award Most
Anticipated Film
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