Oppenheimer [4K Ultra HD] [2023] [Region Free]

After a busy career filled with masterpieces, Christopher Nolan finally succeeded in creating a perfect film.In fact, Oppenheimer might be the best film I watched in a long, long time. Very different than Nolan's recent films, especially the Sci-Fi ones, but shows that Nolan can master the Biopic/Drama genre just as well as he can any other genre he tried to tackle yet. Personally, I must admit that unlike most of Nolan's previous films, I didn't go into this one with overly high expectations. Based on the genre and material the film is based on, I couldn't see how Christopher Nolan could give it his unique touch, and how it could stand alongside films like "The Dark Knight" trilogy, "Inception," and "Interstellar" in his filmography. The film proved me wrong. While it's not my personal top pick in Nolan's filmography, it's undoubtedly his best film so far. Anyone who has read the book "American Prometheus" on which the film is based, can attest to the incredible editing work Nolan did to turn it from a long and detail-packed narrative into a compact film that captivated such a wide audience. While the direction of the film is no less than masterful and is considered the strongest aspect of the film by critics and award bodies in the US and worldwide, in my opinion, the writing is actually the strongest aspect of the film - whether or not you consider the complex material it's based on. Legendary Irish actor Cillian Murphy leads the film with one of the best performances seen on the big screen, with his presence dominating the screen time throughout the film's 3 hours, allowing him to leave a long-lasting mark on the history of cinema. Robert Downey Jr. Also gives an impressive performance, capping off a career of over a decade of roles that didn't demand too much acting prowess from him. The film is 3-hours long yet goes by very quickly and enjoyably. Without spoiling anything, the film presents important and very relevant subjects, and doing so while being non-stop entertainment and a comprehensive character study and a study of our society on a very high pace. The way Nolan chose to compose the film, and Jennifer Lame's amazing editing (which unusually resembles more of an action film's editing than that of a drama), make the film very dynamic, with its extended length almost unnoticeable. The other technical aspects also strive for perfection - whether it's the costumes, set design, or cinematography. Ludwig Göransson's work in the musical aspect of the film in particular is masterful, completely on par with Nolan's previous works. I'm actually visiting the score on a daily basis. The cinematography is stunning and as mentioned before, the editing is cutting edge. All in all this movie is a masterpiece in pretty much all technical fronts as well. After a career filled with masterpieces and amazing films, Christopher Nolan finally managed to craft a perfect film - and to my great delight, he finally received the recognition he deserves. Despite all odds, the film managed to captivate audiences in disproportionate amounts for its genre, proving to studios and audience opinion alike that true cinema will always prevail. I will always rejoice the fact that this is the movie Nolan finally got his Oscars for (even though of course he deserved a few much earlier in his career).With almost a billion dollars gross at Worldwide box office, high acclaim from critics and audience alike, 7 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs, 5 Golden Globes, DGA and a Grammy (along with hundreds of other accolades), ‘Oppenheimer’ will forever be celebrated as one of the most important film in pop culture. A rare feat for filmmaking and a salient reminder that cinema is not dead.One can think of Oppenheimer as a great example of catching lightning in a bottle. After a career full of brilliant works and paradigm-shifting films, Christopher Nolan managed to craft a film that, in my opinion, is perfect. Against all odds, the film attracted an unparalleled audience size for its genre and proved to studios and public opinion that true cinema will always prevail. No wonder it swept through the 2023 Award Season and got (almost) everything it deserved to win. Though the movie is only two years old, it has already secured a spot on my list of favorite and most-watched films that I return to repeatedly, and I believe I’m not alone in thinking it’s a modern classic that will be remembered for years to come.When watching the film, one cannot help but feel it is a collective effort by an ensemble full of highly talented individuals—from the actors to every person responsible for even the smallest detail of the production—all orchestrated by an experienced artist who has honed his craft over a career spanning more than 20 years. To me, it feels as though all of Nolan’s previous films and the different genres he explored refined his filmmaking skills in various ways, ultimately culminating in this film, where every aspect strives for perfection and showcases the best of what we have come to expect from a Christopher Nolan movie. In a way, one can think of Oppenheimer as the culmination of Christopher Nolan’s entire career— all the elements and crafts he learned to master across the years amped to the maximum in a movie that, according to many, is perfectly crafted.Makes one wonder, where he’ll go next from here?

epic film loved it watched it at the cinema and watched it again on tv

Very good film and very close to the documentary that was made a few years earlier . Acting was excellent. No car chases or gun fights ...although the movie does end with a bang. Special mention to Robert Downey who is unrecognisable in his make up and voice . The only strange part was finding out that the poison apple event at the start of the film never actually happened . No idea why that was added . However , all in all ,a class act , but might take two viewings to take in the story .

Brilliant film

This is not a bad movie, but it has been done before, by the BBC with its 1980 7-part miniseries of the same name, starring Sam Waterston, so this new version must give us something new to justify its existence, let alone its $100 million budget (compared to $1.5 million for the BBC). I don't think it does. It is a long film, three hours, but comparing the two I think shows the advantages of a miniseries for telling a long and complex story.Supposedly Nolan based his film on the 2005 Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus, but for me the screenplay frequently tracks with the BBC, perhaps because both were working from the same well-documented historical record.The BBC did a better job of portraying Oppenheimer's academic career before the war, his left-wing leanings and connections, the nature and strengths and weaknesses of his work as a theoretical physicist, and most of all the constant dramas of his affair with Jean Tatlock. It is also better on the final push to build the bomb in 1944-45, the mistakes, the failures, the clashing egos, and how decisions were driven by limited supplies of both U-235 and plutonium. The film version ignores the differences between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and never says that the Little Boy design was never tested before being dropped on Hiroshima; the Trinity test was of the Fat Man plutonium bomb.Cillian Murphy looks more like Oppenheimer than Sam Waterston did, but I still found Waterston more compelling. Murphy's voice is often a hoarse near-whisper.The film has a star-studded cast, but few of them give career-best performances. Emily Blunt is strong as Kitty Oppenheimer, but Gary Oldman is a caricature as Harry Truman; Florence Pugh insufficiently fragile as Jean Tatlock; and Matt Damon never quite takes on the persona of Gen. Groves. David Suchet was a vastly superior Edward Teller. By the way, Teller is not fairly treated by Nolan, portrayed as a bit of a buffoon, and the treatment of Groves is flat, too much as an adversary of Oppenheimer and insufficiently as the organizational genius behind the whole project without whom the physicists for all their brilliance would simply have been chalking numbers on blackboards. Kenneth Nicholls complained about the BBC's portrrayal of him as a horse-holder for Groves, but Nolan repeats that portrayal.The BBC version had the advantage of simplicity, telling the story straight from front to back, while Nolan uses four narrative streams interwoven: a 1948 AEC meeting on developing the H-bomb following the Soviet A-bomb test; Oppenhiemer's 1954 security hearing, which stripped him of his clearance and ended his government career; Lewis Strauss's 1959 confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Commerce, and the story itself, which is cut in as a series of flashbacks from the other events, until it over-takes and merges with those events.Nolan is more forthright than the BBC was about naming Strauss as the driver of the 1954 hearing. Note that while Strauss was dead by 1980, hsi widow was still alive. However, the emphasis on Strauss and in particular on his confimrmation hearing as Commerce Secretary seems to me unbalanced. Strauss was not involved with the Manhattan project and only came into contact with Oppenheimer after the war, when Oppenheimer was more and more doubtful about the consequences of nuclear arms and an advocate of not developing the H-bomb without first trying to negotiate it away with the Soviets. Oppenheimer was an issue in Strauss's Commerce hearings, but really Strauss was a devious Washington operator who had made many enemies, and there is nothing like an advice-and-consent appointment to show who one's enemies are (as friends of mine have learned to their cost), and Oppenheimer was just a stick for his enemies to beat him with. The screen time spent on the Strauss hearing could have been better spent filling out other parts of the story. Treatment of the ecurity hearing could have been more concise, as well. It was a kangaroo court with much time taken up with Roger Robb twisting Oppenheimer's words and is not the most interesting part of the film.Oppenheimer was a man of, and to some extent a victim of, his times. In the 1930s the Communists were so important to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War that if one wanted to fight Franco one could not avoid an association with them. Then the war came, and in a struggle to the death with Germany and allied with the USSR, both the U.S. and the UK tolerated people with very left-wing connections in sensitive positions, at times to their ultimate loss. By 1954 the wheel had turned and Communism was now the great enemy. Had Oppenheimer been more self-serving, he might have been quicker to cut some of his left-wing ties, but he did not, and that made him vulnerable when Strauss and William Borden turned on him.

Brilliant film enjoy it immensely

Great Film