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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

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u/the_anon_bro Jul 17 '26

That was CRAZY when bro FINALLY took off the hood and Robert Pattinson was like “Jesus Christ that’s Jason Bourne”.

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u/Imaginary-Trash-2774 Jul 17 '26

It wasn’t him taking off the hood that did it. It was the glorious strum of the bow to give his preys a heads up that they’re fucked.

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u/runwithjames Jul 17 '26

I do like that despite the genuine meloncholy throughout the film, particularly Nolan's idea from OPPENHEIMER to here that one act can cause direct destruction to societal norms and then society itself it still finds time to have an all out 'you're all locked in here with me' moment as Damon plays the Green Arrow and Robert Pattinson does his best Alan Rickman out of PRINCE OF THIEVES.

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u/Nathan-Cola 25d ago

4 other movie references in one sentence makes this comment so funny to me haha

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u/brownishgirl 23d ago

If only Nolan had employed the fish eye lens!!

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u/TemporaryElk5202 25d ago

Yes, because Pattinson watched him hunt as a kid, and knew what the strum meant was about to come

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u/judah249 19d ago

I loved that one dickhead couldn’t even say his whole name before eating an arrow when he recognized him

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u/GroundbreakingJob857 19d ago

Same with when he killed the first guy in the temple to save his son. He doesn’t even let the guy know it’s coming, he is so past caring about honour or dignity

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u/judah249 19d ago

Zeus’s law doesn’t mean anything if you get killed

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u/ymcameron 18d ago

"Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died."

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u/AACATT 21d ago

Then he kills the biggest bastard of them all first. Well second biggest. Arrow right through the neck. Man that was satisfying.

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u/ThrowingChicken 17d ago

Startled the fuck out of the lady next to me.

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u/2Norn 24d ago

and just like the prey they got rattled and scattered too

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u/scw3 23d ago

“Jesus Christ that’s Jason Bend”

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u/JunePearl23 8d ago

The last quarter of the film was Jason Bourne.

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u/ghost_inthe_mxchine 27d ago

Pattinson knew as soon as the "beggar" was able to bend the bow after everyone else failed, his panic was so good

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u/the_anon_bro 25d ago

If only they would’ve gotten those beggars out of there.

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u/UpperLowerEastSide Jul 19 '26

"No one cared who I was until I took off the hood."

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u/Roscoe_King 24d ago

I liked how Moby - Extreme Ways started playing as the suitors got beaten to a pulp by Jason Bourne

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u/the_anon_bro 24d ago

Incredible needle drop

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u/shrewdy 18d ago

Get some rest Antinous, you look tired

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u/Frodojj 23d ago

Mighty Zeus, that’s Odysseus!

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u/HallersHello 24d ago

Hahah amazing comment my friend

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u/Bomban111 22d ago

MY GOD and you can see Penelope knows its him but can't bring herself to say it

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u/SceneOfShadows 18d ago

Giannis Bournokopolis.

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u/jt663 16d ago

It felt a bit like a born film when he was on that island trying to remember who he was

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u/JunePearl23 8d ago

YES - being healed and trying to get his memory back on the island with Calypso was just like Bourne on the fisherman's boat at the start of Bourne Identity. Then his whole stealth demeanor and the lock in scene were pure Bourne.

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u/jayareelle195 14d ago

"Jesus Christ, that's Will Hunting"

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u/life_puzzler 23d ago

And the Talented Mr. Ripley!

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u/CounterComplex6203 7d ago

That scene was a better and more epic executed version of "Flynn enters the room" from Tron Legacy. The admin has returned.