Oppenheimer as amazing as Interstellar and Dunkirk?

At least one person has seen Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s next film. And obviously, it’s very heavy that does honor to the rest of the director’s filmography.

After the rescue of Hollywood thanks to Top Gun Maverick – according to Steven Spielberg -, and Avatar 2, it is Christopher Nolan who will try to push people back into cinemas. For this, he has a ready-made weapon: Oppenheimer. Her future baby who will not lack ambitions. But will success be there this time?

Oppenheimer: a fantastic and long film by Nolan

Oppenheimer will be Christopher Nolan’s eleventh film after the stunning Tenet. And he intends to amaze us once again with his biopic on Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a researcher who developed the first atomic bomb. A film adapted from the novel “Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. Oppenheimer” benefits from a totally crazy cast that brings together a huge cast of actors.

We are not going to list everything but there will be Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, David Dastmalchian or even Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders, The Dark Knight: The Dark Knight…) in the main role. The Nolan touch. According to Matt Damon, it will be ” fantastic “, ” amazing “ with a Cillian Murphy “phenomenal”.The Nolan touch?

Oppenheimer is three hours long. It’s fantastic. The movie goes so fast, it’s amazing. Cillian Murphy is phenomenal. He is everything you want him to be.

Through Variety.

A few words that stick with the director’s previous films like Interstellar and Dunkirk. Interstellar for the length, the phenomenal performance of Matthew McConaughey and the fact that it’s a fantastic feature film, and Dunkirk for the idea of ​​a film that scrolls at breakneck speed. The latter only lasted 1h40 on one side, but once it took off in the foreground on the beach, the viewer was glued to the end with few moments of respite. To push the limits, Christopher Nolan will go so far as to recreate a nuclear explosion without CGI in Oppenheimer.

Returning to box office success

Obviously, these are the words of an actor who turns in Oppenheimer and who has already passed behind the camera of Christopher Nolan, but given the filmography of the filmmaker, confidence is allowed. On the other hand, the director must perhaps be a little afraid on his side.

His previous project, tenet, split more than usual given its structure. And clearly, this is Nolan’s most radical work with Memento from a storytelling point of view, despite an ultimately classic scenario. But above all, Tenet has extremely disappointed at the box office. While some saw him as a heavyweight capable of bringing people back to dark rooms after long months of COVID-19 and restrictions, the opposite has happened. With 365.3 million dollars collected worldwide, for a budget of 200 million without side effects, the operation was not profitable for Warner Bros.

A failure that Nolan attributes in part to the fact that the film was released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, which resulted in a big argument and a divorce with Batman’s lair. After that, the other production studios, even Netflix, did everything to recover the director, but it was Universal Studios who hit the jackpot. With a budget of 100 million dollars, without promotion, it should already be easier to reconnect with success.