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How one can make a 3 hour movie about the man running the Manhattan Project, about the brilliant complex physics, technology and the earth-shattering moral dilemmas entailed in putting it to use; and end up mostly making a political soap-opera is at least surprising and at best a missed opportunity.

How about not making yet another movie about McCartyism and the plight of the persecuted left? Of what comparative relevance is there in centering the movie around the petty politics of a political nobody like Strauss?

Where were the Germans and the Russians? What about the Japanese? And how about trying not to dumb down the physics, but meet the challenge and enlighten the viewer? This could have been a riveting complex story about one of the most deciding periods in modern history and an opportunity to make use of Nolan's uncanny ability to visualise conceptual ideas; as he did to great effect in movies like Inception, Interstellar and Tenet. There is ample opportunity for cinematic brilliance in all the physics discussed in this move, but all we get is scribbled numbers on blackboards and slo-mo explosions. Would this be very much different if made by Michael Bay?

What happened to the master Taylor? After three great and one decent seasons of Yellowstone and an even greater season of 1883, this just does not compute. Syntax Error. I read an interview recently where Taylor Sheridan worried he is spreading himself too thin with all his projects. May be. Is he churning out some of these newer efforts using OpenAI? This here godawful mess of a show, with Stallone's ulcerous moaning about all things the young'uns are up to, while mafioso-menacing a whole town Sleepy Joe Biden style, just does not convince. Here's hoping forthcoming 1923 gets the laser-focus it deserves from Sheridans brilliant talent.