Brian Chmura

Compelling concept drawn out mostly by the utter stupidity of characters. 10 episodes of a story with 6 episodes of content strung out to 10 episodes. Hard not to hate virtually every character by the 6 hour mark. I guess people in Jersey City are different than people in every place in the US. Must be in the water. Fast forwardee to get to the end. Why wasn't giving up the others part of the plea deal? Why no state witsec for an already pursued witness? Why would the DA leave the case in the hands of incompetent ADA? Why just about everything the author would know from watching any of 1000s of more realistic similar story flows was ignored for this novel tripe? Why? Why? Why? If you want to show injustice (and you should) would you undercut that by there being so many non-systemic failures. The only one who let this family down is the screenwriter.

Beautifully filmed and brilliantly acted. Nolan weaves the story together across timelines in a way that just flows perfectly. We are never jerked from timeline to timeline, never uncertain when and where we are, and no cheesy flashback devices. It's an epic work and cinematically it is incredibly orchestrated. It was entertaining....even in what AMC considers a showpiece theater (#amcsucks)...the 3ish hours just seemed like a natural pace for the story arc. The cast and cameos were great man for man, woman for woman. Nolan got great work from all. And in the end... Oppenheimer remains the historical enigma he truly is. Nolan gives us space to see Oppenheimer as we determine, hero and antihero possibilities are presented and left for us to resolve as we see fit