Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan
Based on American Prometheus; by: Kai Bird; Martin J. Sherwin
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek & Kenneth Branagh.
Producers by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan
Music by Ludwig Göransson
Production companies: Atlas Entertainment, Syncopy
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
The plot: During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb.
That Oppenheimer Movie was hit and misses.
Pros: I liked seeing the screen changes to black and white when it time for Lewis Groves’s scenes. All of the performances was so good. Watching this movie does feel liked a history lesson about the usage of technology. It takes it’s timed telling this man’s story place-by-place and I did also feel for the danger and the thrills of what’s going on. The huge twist did catch me by surprised.
Cons: It does drag long in the 1st and the 3rd arc as well with certain scenes. I got sleepy through most of the 1st arc and there’s not that much usage of ageing technology.
The Casts:
- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer
- Matt Damon as Leslie Groves
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss
- Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock
- Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence
- Casey Affleck as Boris Pash
- Rami Malek as David Hill
- Kenneth Branagh as Niels Bohr
- Benny Safdie as Edward Teller
- Dylan Arnold as Frank Oppenheimer
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Hans Bethe
- David Krumholtz as Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Matthew Modine as Vannevar Bush
- David Dastmalchian as William L. Borden
- Tom Conti as Albert Einstein
- Michael Angarano as Robert Serber
- Jack Quaid as Richard Feynman
- Josh Peck as Kenneth Bainbridge
- Olivia Thirlby as Lilli Hornig
- Dane DeHaan as Kenneth Nichols
- Danny Deferrari as Enrico Fermi
- Alden Ehrenreich as a Senate aide
- Jefferson Hall as Haakon Chevalier
- Jason Clarke as Roger Robb
- James D’Arcy as Patrick Blackett
- Tony Goldwyn as Gordon Gray
- Devon Bostick as Seth Neddermeyer
- Alex Wolff as Luis Walter Alvarez
- Scott Grimes as Counsel
- Josh Zuckerman as Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Werner Heisenberg
- Christopher Denham as Klaus Fuchs
- David Rysdahl as Donald Hornig
- Guy Burnet as George Eltenton
- Louise Lombard as Ruth Tolman
- Harrison Gilbertson as Philip Morrison
- Emma Dumont as Jackie Oppenheimer
- Trond Fausa Aurvåg as George Kistiakowsky
- Olli Haaskivi as Edward Condon
- Gary Oldman as Harry S. Truman
- John Gowans as Ward Evans
- Kurt Koehler as Thomas A. Morgan
- Macon Blair as Lloyd Garrison
- Harry Groener as Gale W. McGee
- Jack Cutmore-Scott as Lyall Johnson
- James Remar as Henry Stimson
- Gregory Jbara as Warren Magnuson
- Tim DeKay as John Pastore
- James Urbaniak as Kurt Gödel
I highly recommend watching this movie.
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe