Maggie

This movie was disappointing. There's a totally unnecessary sex scene that comes out of nowhere and neither adds to the story nor does it make a point -- it was just a forced scene to fill check off the Hollywood sex scene requirement. The rest of the film spends so much time on the bureaucratic torture and persecution that Oppenheimer suffered; though this was an interesting aspect of his life that I knew nothing about, the trailer led me to to think that the movie was about the Manhattan project and Oppenheimer's involvement in it. I thought more time would've been spent on the science part of the H-bomb development with more technical details and participation of all the major scientists who were a part of that team. Instead the film jumps to different time frames focusing on the administrative aspect of putting together the team, then spends most of the time parked in the government's sabotaging of his reputation, the persecution he suffered, etc. There was no footage of the H-bomb dropped in Japan. I was hoping for more scenes of the experiments in the desert in New Mexico. There was only one scene involving trinity. The rest was talk, talk talk. As a physicist, I wanted to see more science. This movie was absolutely disappointing.