The author of a controversial translation of "The Odyssey" that helped influence Christopher Nolan’s adaptation panned the film in a scathing review. Emily Wilson, who wrote what some call a feminist translation of Homer’s "The Odyssey" that helped influence the film, panned director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation for missing the spirit of the original heroic epic. Wilson went on to write in her review that the film’s writing is "abysmal" for a wide variety of reasons. "Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great," she wrote. "The race-neutral casting of Nolan’s Odyssey was inevitably deplored in some quarters.