‘The Odyssey’ (2026) Review
'The Odyssey' (2026) Review: What's A King To A God? Right off the bat, I want to confess: I desperately wanted this movie to fail. I wanted the great Christopher Nolan to meet his match and buckle under the weight of his own ambition. Not because I wanted to see a bad movie, life is too short to do so, but because I couldn’t imagine a funnier scenario than the best director and best picture winner falling on his face with his immediate follow-up. Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for the movie-going populace, this man, does not, miss. Then again, he is working with stacked deck. An elite cast, a God-like cinematographer, a generational composer. They’ve put their faith in Nolan as the captain of this vessel to see them home, no matter what challenges they face. Matt Damon takes on that role on screen as a true movie star does. His performance is convincingly confident, with his ego and hubris leading him to dare defy the Gods and suffer a legendary humbling.The movie opens in one of the strangest ways it possibly could: Travis Scott banging a staff on a wooden table as he throws out ad libs for his latest track. It’s a dizzying thing to see, setting the stage for a story of hubris, told initially with copious amounts of exposition. The first few scenes of the film are oddly paced, with pointed dialogue, said with a whimper from Tom Holland…