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Now here is a director with talent and arguably the best cast one can imagine, and yet again, this story is told utterly and unnecessarily complicated. The only way of dealing with the subject of Oppenheimer and his complicated genius, is to tell his story as straight as possible without jumping back and forth, the occasional jump to the side, the additional jump over a hurdle and the extra jump across the timelines. It worked for Memento and it didn't work for Tenet, but it definitely didn't work here. This movie was neither enjoyable nor interesting, unlike the subject matter.

I should have been suspicious to find that movie so soon and for free on Amazon Prime.

You could compare this movie to Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Citizen Kane or, even better, with the original Solaris ( not the american version), but still, this is not just a movie, it's a broadside attack on your standard perceptions executed with great intelligence and sensitivity. And: the more you know about movies and literature, the more you will understand the countless allegories. Also: the cinematography puts any other movie of the last few decades to shame.