Nolan’s latest films stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland
Christopher Nolan’s ‘most underrated’ film has been added to Netflix as The Odyssey wows fans in cinemas across the world.
Nolan is one of the UK’s most successful directors of recent years. In 2024 he won both Best Picture and Best Director at the 96th Academy Awards for Oppenheimer.
Famously released on the same day as Barbie in an event branded Barbenheimer, the Cillian Murphy film followed the man who created the atomic bomb. Nolan was finally recognised at the Oscars after being nominated five times in the past.
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Outside of Oppenheimer, Nolan is known for delivering the iconic Dark Knight Trilogy, mind-bending Inception, thundering war film Dunkirk and sci-fi epic Interstellar. Simply put, there is no one navigating genres like him.
On Friday (July 15) The Odyssey finally hit cinemas almost a full year after tickets went on sale. Starring Matt Damon, the film follows King Odysseus as sets sail for Ithaca, eager to reunite with his beloved.
However, his journey home is far more treacherous than the battlefield, as he must face deadly monsters and vengeful gods to survive. A host of Nolan’s most popular collaborators are taking part in the project, including Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Himesh Patel.
The latter is a former EastEnders star who made his debut in a Nolan film that came out at the height of the pandemic. Thankfully, it’s now been added to Netflix and is well worth a watch.
Released in 2020, Tenet is a science fiction action thriller unlike any other you’ve seen before. The film follows a CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization.
Once there, he’s tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack by the future. No this isn’t a time travel movie, it’s something much more complex.
Leading the cast is none other than John David Washington, the son of acting legend Denzel Washington. The creator star is slick and composed as a protagonist whose suitable named ‘The Protagonist’.
Filling out the rest of the cast is Pattinson, The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki, Hindi film star Dimple Kapadia, The Italian Job’s Michael Caine and Harry Potter’s Kenneth Branagh. If that wasn’t enough star power, 28 Years Later’s Aaron Taylor-Johnson joins late on into the film.
Tenet was the first Hollywood tent-pole to open in theaters during the pandemic and grossed $366 million worldwide on a $205 million budget. While that number is very far off from what Nolan’s films tend to make, it was still the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year.
Critics were unsure what to make of Tenet, presumably due to how far-fetched it is, giving it a harsh score of 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. It remains his worst reviewed movie.
Its critical consensus reads: “A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production.”
Thankfully, the past six years have seen people finally realising that Tenet is an underrated gem. Many of them have taken to Reddit to explain why it’s a film better than its reception suggests.
@HippieWizard said: “I LOVED IT! i understand the confusion because most people are oblivious to normal things let alone this very detailed movie.” @fullsendit added: “This Is such a unique raw film and I loved It. Did I understand exactly the time mechanics and what’s going on more than 80% of the time? Of course not far from It.”
@KlassicLoL wrote: ”Destined to be Nolan’s cult film. Don’t try to understand it, feel it.” @himzidimzi joked: “I just got done watching it. All I have to say is this. I really liked what I saw but I have no idea what exactly is that I saw.”
@Kep0a commented: “Excellent film, easily hits the same exact chords as Inception for me. Honestly they totally achieved the suspension of disbelief. I don’t care even if you hate the film a fucking car chase in reverse is the coolest thing I have ever seen.”
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