Eric Katterheinrich

This is a movie about science and politics. It's a true story that is mostly historically accurate. A lot of it is about the main character's moral conflict over his invention. The movie is mostly dialogue. The humor and the drama are subtle. There are no gun fights or car chases, no clubs, dancing, or pop music. Taylor Swift didn't write the script or the score. The set isn't entirely pink. There isn't any low brow humor about bodily functions. If you don't understand that before you watch it, you may end up here posting a review about how long and boring it was. If you enjoy history, science and politics, appreciate excellent acting and direction and can follow multiple plots at the same time, you'll love this movie. If you're looking for something action packed and trendy with frat boy humor you probably won't like it much. This is Robert Downey Jr's best acting in quite a while, (although it isn't obvious until hour number three) and Murphy is exceptional as expected. The work on the bomb and both hearings being played out simultaneously helps add some variety to what would have probably been too much to watch sequentially. It requires some thought to put the pieces together at first. The score is big, and on occasion it covers up parts of the dialogue. Nothing major, you'll still get the idea. I really enjoyed this movie. It's not my favorite of Nolan's movies, but it'll probably be my favorite movie of 2023.