3 stars (out of 4) So, how well-versed are you in quantum physics? Do you know the difference between a hydrogen bomb and an atom bomb?
Does the word “isotope” mean anything to you?Knowing the answers is not the make-or-break when it comes to enjoying — well, more like gleaning the full experience — out of Oppenheimer.
But it will help. A densely plotted 180-minute opus about “the father of the atomic bomb” that unfolds via a non-linear narrative, this is the ultimate thinking person’s summer film.
And while viewers will no doubt find parts of it confounding and convoluted, there’s a richly rewarding payoff. FYI, that is not a reference to the actual nuclear explosion.Of course, this is all de rigueur for writer-director Christopher Nolan.
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