ryan-beauchesne

I was looking forward to this but wow, it was worse than I could have even expected by the poor reviews.

DiCaprio's performance was great and captivating. Deniro felt a little out of place.

But despite that, the story, climax, any emotional connection, fell completely flat. The 3.5 hour runtime did not even help build connections with the characters. I still didn't care about any of them. We don't even feel pity for the wife, who somehow is oblivious or doesn't care that much the evil her husband is inflicting all around her?! It doesn't even make sense. At least if they used the long runtime to really develop the characters and connections, that might at least justify it, but nope - just nope.

I kept hoping that at least the ending would be worth it, but it was just such a flat, anti climactic flop. Things wrapped up with no explanation or satisfaction. Even the antagonist goes out without even seeing him. In fact, the story is just summed up by some theatre play at the end.

Just so disappointing, boring, and blah.

This is actually a pretty good show overall, but they really started it off on such a lazy setup that it really ruins the realism for the whole rest of the season...

By "setup" I'm talking about how Cruz sets up the friendship with the target/Aaliyah. It was literally as simple as bumping into her in a store and boom, Aaliyah's like "hey be my friend and come join us for so-and-so"..

I mean getting in with the target should have been half the battle, and yet they just accomplish it in 2 minutes. It was just so unrealistic and lazy, and just ruins your suspension of belief for the whole rest of the operation and the supposed friendship she's developing.

Was really unfortunate, since if they put a little more effort and challenge into Cruz approaching, nurturing and developing a fake friendship with Aaliyah would have been much more interesting and believable especially for the rest of the series as it follows..

Maybe my expectations were off slightly. This was a character study into Oppenheimer and the tribulations of his career, and about his politics rather than truly about the science and production of the A bomb. I was hoping to see more nitty gritty into the bomb's development, and maybe some footage of its use in Japan to really reinforce the human toll and destruction of the immensely powerful weapon that they had created for the final act. Instead its just dramatic closeups of Opp's troubled face. But I feel we needed some more visuals (of war) to establish more emotion. It felt exceedingly anticlimactic.

And really, 75% of this movie is a small backroom kangaroo court prosecution that is just flatly boring and soo unnecessarily long.

As another reviewer said, you could just listen to the audio of this movie and it would be virtually the same experience. There is nothing visually interesting or exciting.