If you’re expecting Tenet/Interstellar/Inception/Dark Knight level awesomeness (like me), you definitely WILL be disappointed. The movie struggles with having a strong narrative. The buildup to Trinity Test was awesome but the test shots were pretty… disappointing. Not a single shot shows the scale of the explosion or the aftermath. It’s all talk no show. They hyped up so much about blowing up a bomb IRL but showed so little on screen. Acting performances are epic tho.
The movie peaked at around the 2-hour mark (the Trinity test) and the last hour was just typical tying up open ends of multiple storylines.
I’ve seen a BUNCH of people checking their phones or chitchatting past the bomb scene. I usually rant about it but this time I totally understand why. The music was underwhelming too. It was EPIC for like a whole 8 minutes in a 3-hour movie.