OPPENHEIMER
(15) 180mins
★★★★☆
THERE are moments in Christopher Nolan’s epic ode to the genius physicist where you can’t believe what you are seeing.
Hoyte Van Hoytema’s cinematography is simply stunning.
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It’s a film that is Oscar worthy and has a dialogue full of life and energy. You can hardly follow it.
Cillian Murphy, as J. Robert Oppenheimer, doesn’t miss a beat.
His fellow actors are no exception.
It is as if the story untold was sprayed across the big screen, with so much vigor, colour and sound that you can’t help but blink.
It is both moving and disturbing, but it moves at an incredible rate for the first 2 hours.
It was shot with IMAX 70mm cameras, and with zero CGI, but there are plenty of moments that make you mouth ‘How did he do that?’ in awe.
But there’s a problem.
The film is so long. Overlong.
It is difficult to walk through the treacle in the third part of the day.
With long meetings of lawyers and scrapping politics, the pace is slowed down to an unrecognisable level.
It’s almost like watching a different film.
It was disappointing to me as an admirer of Florence Pugh. She is a wonderful actor, but she is always topless.
But strap in for the first two-thirds of Oppenheimer – it is an explosive blaze of brilliance.