With all the hype surrounding this movie and all the stellar actors in it, one would expect this to pack quite the impact! I found the opening half of the movie leading up to what turned out to be one of the most Anticlimactic expression of a nuclear bomb ever filmed...You might say How can that be possible? Just watch the detonation, cling to ur seat, prepare to be amazed and blown away and then you will see what Im talking about...Cinematography was good,for sure throughout the movie, but nothing memorable nor outstanding..Similiarily with the acting,n as everyone did a decent to excellent job but nothing exceptional..Maybe its the writing,which seemed patchy and inconsistant in engaging interest,especially in the parts after the bomb demo and the final parts with the Hearing going on, I just fastforwarded thru ...This is what I mean that the movie had its moments but could not sustain them and those moments were mixed with long, ,boring, drawn out sequences that could have been left on the cutting room floor..There Should have been More focus on the horrors of the bomb,its devasting effects on the people it was dropped on and the equally devasting effects it had upon oppenheimer's psyche and his soul..Completly avoiding the showing of the dropping of the 2 bombs was just biazzare in a movie that could have shown the Real horror of the use of an atomic bomb and instead,skipped over it and focused on courtroom hearings...Its a good effort,it has that "cinematic" quality all about it especially in the opening half but it Fizzles out and looses its spark and just becomes a tedious and frankly ,uninteresting story twords its end...Decent yes, outstanding masterpiece? No, not at all..missess the mark of greatness and falls short.
Review of Oppenheimer
