Apart from a couple of cringeworthy scenes, it is a brilliant, but disturbing recreation of a world drunk on its own power. Robert Downey Jr is on top form alongside an excellent cast.
I loved the build and the intensity however struggled at times to follow the time switches and was definitely maybe 40 minutes too long. Definitely worth a watch and glad could watch it with a pause button for snack and toilet stops
A five star depiction of the development of the H bomb , the story of its development its destructive impact and then the attempt to castigate him later for this development in the cost of human lives lost !
It is a very good film, but I’m not so sure that it lives up to the hype, however, maybe I need to watch it again to really appreciate it, but I need to leave it a while , as over 3 hours is a long time to spend watching one film.
A good historical representation of events around the development of the Atomic Bomb. Well acted but probably not the sort of material to interest younger audiences. Fortunately I am older generation and more interested in that era.
Cut this by an hour and it would have been tauter. Too much back story and too many effects to indicate Oppenheimer’s state of mind, not necessary as Cillian’s acting was more than good enough to convey what was needed.
The film was interesting and may be close to reality, one can’t know these days when many productions take their preferred interpretation of events. I found having two parallel story lines a little confusing at first even as one is in colour and the other in monochrome. I doubt that I’lll watch it again.
I watched this on xmas day when there was a lot going on and pretty much hated it. But I recently rented it and watched it more carefully. It was interesting and informative and entertaining too. Worth watching…
The Race for the Atom Bomb was well underway by the later stage of WWII.
Good acting from Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast.
This film, should have been 1 1/2 hours long at most.
I kept falling asleep.
Ah well, excellent soundtrack, visuals and SFX.
I must admit the detonation of the first A Bomb was a bit of a damp squib.
It was Okay.
What’s left to say which hasn’t been said already.
This has superb performances especially from Cillian Murphy and RDJ .
I can’t say this is a feel good film but if you know the premise of this film you’ll know what the films subject matter contains.
If political dramas are of your interest then this one ticks all the boxes.
Some scenes I found unnecessary and the females portrayed are a bit short changed here with very little to do but overall the film us a stunning character study of a period in history that had huge implications for how the world embarked on an uncertain future. The print on the 4K release looks stunning and would make for a fine reference piece for your new television to showcase it’s best features.
Recommended.
I thought this an excellent movie to add to my collection. I did rather wonder if Christopher Nolan, director of Batman movies, mistook the genre he was making. It is supposed to be based on fact but, the jumping backwards and forwards in time, the ridiculous nude scenes that added nothing, the fantasy-type scenes, almost wrecked it.
However, the casting and performances were absolutely stellar and I would rewatch this 3 hour film for that reason, skipping through the nonsense like I skip through the nonsense on Game of Thrones.
Tom Conti really is Einstein reincarnate, I am convinced. 🙂
I quite enjoyed this film but it was too long for me and the story line kept on chopping and changing. Even the film kept going from colour to black and white. I think it should have been an hour shorter and the only exciting part was when the first bomb was detonated. No-one was sure if it would cause a chain reaction and blow up the world. Oppenheimer himself was a complicated person but obviously clever in what he learnt as a scientist. The film was centred mostly around his personal life and it seems everyone was against him. Overall a good watch but be prepared for the length of the film.
As my title, the kind of dream sequences and the sex scenes would have usefully been dropped and replaced with some very basic physics about the practicalities of what they did. No I wasn’t after a documentary, I have seen and read a lot on the subject but it did give the impression that it was all done with arguments and hand-waving. I know I am in a tiny minority here. For example they did give some weight to Teller’s calculations about accidentally causing a runaway fusion reaction but didn’t even attempt a five-year old’s explanation of why this was not going to happen e.g. the conditions needed for this are only present in the Sun (at the time). They could still have preserved the dramatic what-if by caveating this with the “Theory/experiment” argument they referred to a couple of times.
This is very probably the best film I’ve ever seen. For a start there is a powerhouse performance from the main actors – Cillian Murphy is surely in line for a Best Actor at the upcoming OSCARS – with Robert Downey Jnr for Best Supporting Actor, and Emily Blunt for Best Actress. In fact all then cast put in sterling performances – even the minor actors give their very best with not a dull performance amongst them. Christopher Nolan’s direction is perfection and surely he is in line for a Best Director Oscar. Ludwig Gorensson’s score is majestic and perfect for the subject matter – so he too will be in line for a Best Original Soundtrack Oscar. The Screenplay sizzles – and is another sure-fire Oscar nominee/contender. The Cinemaphotography is superb – so there is another Oscar contender. it WILL win a bucketload of Oscars and deservedly so.
I can never remember a film where virtually every frame is full of tension – it hooked me straight away. And no film has ever done that before.
As you’ll notice in my title, this is a film that is, put simply………just good. I can’t say it was disappointing but I CAN say that I wouldn’t watch it again, just one of those. I also thought that there was a desperate attempt by either Director or producer to cram in the unlimited amount of information that was amassed by such a government project, which is actually understandable and could well have been split into 2 films. I think the best way to see this film would be at the cinema as I’m sure with the acoustics etc and loudness and the rumbling of the room it maybe WAS epic? Who knows, and I never will.
Entertaining but dragged a bit. I’m not sure what I was expecting but found the chest-beating at end a bit disingenuous. Worth watching even if Oppenheimer’s personal life was shooshed up and didn’t seem to add much to the understanding of a man who clearly had a powerful intellect. It would have helped convey the ‘destroyer of worlds’ trope if footage of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been included together with some sort of visual reference to the prolonged horrible effects of radiation. A film on this subject and on this man deserves imagery to convey the cloud(sic) we have all been living under since the end of WW2. I felt the message a little diluted by the desire to make good box office. An opportunity missed!
A movie with an excellent cast which is in general well made. I have a couple of reservations: the affair between Oppy and his mistress could have been handled more decorously without reducing its relevance to the story line, and I was irritated by some focusing errors in interior close up scenes which seem to be a consequence of the director’s choice to shoot in film – though this choice is certainly responsible for the quality of the outdoor scenes, which look magnificent even in the 2K BluRay transfer.
The message here is about how those responsible for creating technologies lose control over how these technologies are applied and developed even further, and the devastating consequences on both the scientists and the victims of misapplication. In view of the current deteriorating international situation and also the rapid & seemingly uncontrolled development of “artificial intelligence” applications based on Big Data, this movie is one that I feel everybody needs to see despite its minor imperfections.
Also the 90 minute documentary “To End All War” on the “Special Features” disc is IMHO worth the purchase price of the whole 2 x Blu Ray package.
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Apart from a couple of cringeworthy scenes, it is a brilliant, but disturbing recreation of a world drunk on its own power. Robert Downey Jr is on top form alongside an excellent cast.
I loved the build and the intensity however struggled at times to follow the time switches and was definitely maybe 40 minutes too long. Definitely worth a watch and glad could watch it with a pause button for snack and toilet stops
A five star depiction of the development of the H bomb , the story of its development its destructive impact and then the attempt to castigate him later for this development in the cost of human lives lost !
It is a very good film, but I’m not so sure that it lives up to the hype, however, maybe I need to watch it again to really appreciate it, but I need to leave it a while , as over 3 hours is a long time to spend watching one film.
A good historical representation of events around the development of the Atomic Bomb. Well acted but probably not the sort of material to interest younger audiences. Fortunately I am older generation and more interested in that era.
Cut this by an hour and it would have been tauter. Too much back story and too many effects to indicate Oppenheimer’s state of mind, not necessary as Cillian’s acting was more than good enough to convey what was needed.
The film was interesting and may be close to reality, one can’t know these days when many productions take their preferred interpretation of events. I found having two parallel story lines a little confusing at first even as one is in colour and the other in monochrome. I doubt that I’lll watch it again.
but very good*.
The first 10ish minutes of it reminded me of a Philomena Cunk sketch.
*I ran out of time on the rental and missed that last 15 mins. But I’m sure that was as good as the rest.
I watched this on xmas day when there was a lot going on and pretty much hated it. But I recently rented it and watched it more carefully. It was interesting and informative and entertaining too. Worth watching…
The Race for the Atom Bomb was well underway by the later stage of WWII.
Good acting from Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast.
This film, should have been 1 1/2 hours long at most.
I kept falling asleep.
Ah well, excellent soundtrack, visuals and SFX.
I must admit the detonation of the first A Bomb was a bit of a damp squib.
It was Okay.
This has superb performances especially from Cillian Murphy and RDJ .
I can’t say this is a feel good film but if you know the premise of this film you’ll know what the films subject matter contains.
If political dramas are of your interest then this one ticks all the boxes.
Some scenes I found unnecessary and the females portrayed are a bit short changed here with very little to do but overall the film us a stunning character study of a period in history that had huge implications for how the world embarked on an uncertain future. The print on the 4K release looks stunning and would make for a fine reference piece for your new television to showcase it’s best features.
Recommended.
I thought this an excellent movie to add to my collection. I did rather wonder if Christopher Nolan, director of Batman movies, mistook the genre he was making. It is supposed to be based on fact but, the jumping backwards and forwards in time, the ridiculous nude scenes that added nothing, the fantasy-type scenes, almost wrecked it.
However, the casting and performances were absolutely stellar and I would rewatch this 3 hour film for that reason, skipping through the nonsense like I skip through the nonsense on Game of Thrones.
Tom Conti really is Einstein reincarnate, I am convinced. 🙂
I quite enjoyed this film but it was too long for me and the story line kept on chopping and changing. Even the film kept going from colour to black and white. I think it should have been an hour shorter and the only exciting part was when the first bomb was detonated. No-one was sure if it would cause a chain reaction and blow up the world. Oppenheimer himself was a complicated person but obviously clever in what he learnt as a scientist. The film was centred mostly around his personal life and it seems everyone was against him. Overall a good watch but be prepared for the length of the film.
As my title, the kind of dream sequences and the sex scenes would have usefully been dropped and replaced with some very basic physics about the practicalities of what they did. No I wasn’t after a documentary, I have seen and read a lot on the subject but it did give the impression that it was all done with arguments and hand-waving. I know I am in a tiny minority here. For example they did give some weight to Teller’s calculations about accidentally causing a runaway fusion reaction but didn’t even attempt a five-year old’s explanation of why this was not going to happen e.g. the conditions needed for this are only present in the Sun (at the time). They could still have preserved the dramatic what-if by caveating this with the “Theory/experiment” argument they referred to a couple of times.
I can never remember a film where virtually every frame is full of tension – it hooked me straight away. And no film has ever done that before.
As you’ll notice in my title, this is a film that is, put simply………just good. I can’t say it was disappointing but I CAN say that I wouldn’t watch it again, just one of those. I also thought that there was a desperate attempt by either Director or producer to cram in the unlimited amount of information that was amassed by such a government project, which is actually understandable and could well have been split into 2 films. I think the best way to see this film would be at the cinema as I’m sure with the acoustics etc and loudness and the rumbling of the room it maybe WAS epic? Who knows, and I never will.
Entertaining but dragged a bit. I’m not sure what I was expecting but found the chest-beating at end a bit disingenuous. Worth watching even if Oppenheimer’s personal life was shooshed up and didn’t seem to add much to the understanding of a man who clearly had a powerful intellect. It would have helped convey the ‘destroyer of worlds’ trope if footage of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been included together with some sort of visual reference to the prolonged horrible effects of radiation. A film on this subject and on this man deserves imagery to convey the cloud(sic) we have all been living under since the end of WW2. I felt the message a little diluted by the desire to make good box office. An opportunity missed!
The message here is about how those responsible for creating technologies lose control over how these technologies are applied and developed even further, and the devastating consequences on both the scientists and the victims of misapplication. In view of the current deteriorating international situation and also the rapid & seemingly uncontrolled development of “artificial intelligence” applications based on Big Data, this movie is one that I feel everybody needs to see despite its minor imperfections.
Also the 90 minute documentary “To End All War” on the “Special Features” disc is IMHO worth the purchase price of the whole 2 x Blu Ray package.