Unless you want to spend the rest of your life wanting the return of three wasted hours, stay away from the movie Oppenheimer. It’s a ponderous, turgid mess.
The film also is ethically confused at its very best, and it adopts Hollywood’s tiresome and obsessive pessimism. Trendy leftist entertainment insists that we live in the worst of possible worlds, that the United States is little better than the rest of that bad world, and that benighted humanity is hurtling toward human-caused doom.Let’s temporarily set aside the thematic and philosophical problems, though, and first assess Oppenheimer as entertainment, or rather as lack thereof.
Then there’s the matter of why the last two hearings — the security-clearance one and the confirmation hearing for Commerce nominee Lewis Strauss — are afforded such prominence. Not only in the first two hours do they keep interrupting the more important narrative about the Manhattan Project, but then together, they take up almost the entire last hour of a three-hour slog.
Meanwhile, as if Oppenheimer weren’t already outrageously self-important, Nolan keeps the background music, or rather the insistent noise, at a fever pitch throughout. Imagine if Steven Spielberg had played the shark theme notes in Jaws — DUH-duh-DUH-duh — incessantly throughout that whole movie, rather than merely when the beast was approaching, and you get the feel of this assault on the senses.
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