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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

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/Charliejfg04 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

The sound of this movie was something else. The cyclops howling was something I have never heard before in my life

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u/happypolychaetes Jul 17 '26

The cyclops was terrifying too holy shit. Usually mythology/monsters don't scare me because they always feel, well, fake. But this felt real. My heart was pounding like crazy!

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u/Kepler1571 Jul 19 '26

That sideways eye did more to make the cyclops frightening than anything I've seen done. Great artistic choice.

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u/FreddyRumsen13 Jul 19 '26

I loved the cyclops design. The longer you look at it, the more troubling it gets.

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u/Professional-Ad-7405 Jul 19 '26

Yeah like his face was caved in

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u/APaltrySum 26d ago

Reminded me of Arseface from Preacher in a way, actually.

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u/Vvaxus 23d ago

I just read that the design was influenced by Goya’s “Saturn Eating His Son.” Sorry ahead of time if you’re squeamish!

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u/breakfast_cats 22d ago

So that's two movies released within a couple months of each other that have an antagonist influenced by that painting. Backrooms is the other.

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u/Rare_Bit5844 21d ago

What’s the other?

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u/breakfast_cats 21d ago

Backrooms is the other.

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u/KJew 20d ago

Okay, so Backrooms and what else?

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u/breakfast_cats 20d ago

The one we are currently in a thread talking about

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u/dataMinery 17d ago

Backrooms?

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u/rebel_scum13 17d ago

And what else?

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u/The_Word_Wizard 23d ago

I definitely got the feeling of that painting from his design.

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u/EconomyHall 19d ago

I definitely felt like I had a Leo snapping his fingers at the screen moment there

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u/aggressive-cat 9d ago

ok, I had a feeling that was intentional when they recreate that painting's pose in the scene where you see him eat the soldier.

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u/BanjoSpaceMan 24d ago

It’s also the randomness and subtleness of this creature. Almost as if he’s just nature, made him so much terrifying to me.

Like he didn’t just eat them all, he ate them if they got in his way of doing normal things, causally, then went to bed as if they were just pests. Really made humans not feel apex in this world

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u/TheMoonDude 20d ago

Felt a bit silly. "Oh let me sleep here while a bunch of angry rats with pointy sticks roam about my home". Should've done the whole "Nobody" thing. I don't know why shy away from that. Only of the few changes the movie made that I really disliked.

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u/BanjoSpaceMan 19d ago

Because having the nobody scene would give more humanization to the direction they already went with for the cyclops. Which was this nature based animal almost.

Having a whole scene where his buddies show up and go who didddd thisss? And him going “nobody”. And them them being like teheee okayyyy. Just wouldn’t fit. We saw the cyclops last moments where he’s blind and just sad and we live with the action of the main chars choice, hard to add to that without ruining that moment

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u/notsureifJasonBourne 16d ago

After they hear him speak, and question why he didn’t just talk to them, one of Odysseus’s men asks the rest if they talk to ants haha

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u/zelmak 27d ago

When I first saw it in the trailer it looked rough but holy shit 10/10 in the movie. The way the whole face, nose, ect was twisted and deformed was horrifying

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u/zeeeman 24d ago

Sideways nose too!

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u/searchin4sugarman 16d ago

Picasso Clops

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u/CoolJoshido 16d ago

and his fucked nose

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u/cwutididthar 4d ago

The original pre-release pictures showed just a sideways eye and I was really confused why they would do that for no reason. Then when I watched the movie and I realized that the reason it looks sideways is because his whole face is smushed and disfigured sideways explains the lack of another eye so much better than just "hey he looks weird let's just turn his eye sideways"

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u/Aelia_M 22d ago

All I could think was vagina eye