What's the production lacks in genuine locations, cinematography and special effects is amply made up by the excellent performances of the cast and the intelligent screenplay. Sam Waterston portrays the complexity of the epynominous subject's life and work, perfectly sparred with Manning Redwood as General Groves, and showcasing the skills of David Suchet as Edward Teller, and many more great actors make this quite an upper echelon undertaking. The screenplay is intelligent and almost dispenses with the need for the brief narration by mixing plenty of hard fact with drama and human emotion. There is so much fact laid out here within the drama, such an amount of working through the controversy and contradiction, that at the end of the exhausting ride I concur with the esteemed Mark Kemode here that I'm now hardly interested in seeing a Hollywood blockbuster version of this history.
Review of Oppenheimer
