The Odyssey: Movie Review

Cast: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Robert Pattinson, Elliott Page, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, Charlize Theron, Himesh Patel, Mia Goth, Samantha Morton
Director: Christopher Nolan

Homer's The Odyssey is one of the world's first original stories, a tale of an epic journey written some 3,000 years ago.

So it's perhaps apt that Christopher Nolan's movie is an equally epic outing, lasting nearly 3 hours on screen and cramming in an all-star cast of talent.

And there's no doubting Nolan's ambition here - a film of such immeasurable scale from the very beginning as it follows Damon's Odysseus as he tries to get his men home after the end of the Trojan War.

But it's not all perfect going, no matter how much you're willing to fawn over and fall over the spectacle that plays out.

Its opening is a mess, a mix of exposition and dialogue dumping that's made worse by the almost piecemeal and episodic feel of some of the tribulations of the men as they try to get home.