There's nothing wrong with Oppenheimer. It's a movie packed with great actors, directed by an amazing director, and has a lot of great one on one dialogues and smart come backs. Objectively this is a great movie that checks all the check boxes, and will likely receive enough awards to make its creators proud. It's a movie that was made to look great on a shelf accompanied by other Nolan films, maybe flipped to the back side to proudly display the 180 minute runtime. But it wasn't the type of movie a lot of people could watch twice. I can see a parallel script for Oppenheimer that better uses the lengthy 3 hour runtime in a way that's, well .. more fun. This version is too padded with the wrong stuffing. Instead of focusing on the scientific aspects of Oppenheimer's work, it delves too far and deep in his romantic and political dramas. The trial setting is simply too boring and bland. Hearing testimonies from every cast member inside a claustrophobic room really killed the enjoyment for me. The romances, doubly so.
Review of Oppenheimer
