Christopher Nolan doesn't make bad films. That's precisely what makes The Odyssey so disappointing — it isn't a failure of ambition, it's a failure of restraint. I say this as someone who considers Inception the high-water mark of modern blockbuster filmmaking — a film that earned its complexity, its practical effects, its refusal to hold the audience's hand. The Odyssey wants that same credit, but it's chasing the signature rather than the substance. Somewhere between Inters
