Oppenheimer
my disillusion about this one was pretty inevitable. what i initially found to be a dialectical study in the past and future spilling into one another now comes across as a trite and almost juvenile exercise in indulging the perceived grandeur of mythology/nuclear fission-fusion.. some directors never change! bafflingly obvious - all the "thematic nuance" springs from a clumsy abstraction of character; all the "artistic flourishes" (lightning-fast cuts from 'scene' to 'scene') are in fact necessitated by <PERSON>'s blatant inability to hold more than a moment of dramatic tension.
a frantic mess of pomp and bombast. 698