”—ShelleyIf Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is not a great film, it is at the very least a sincere, serious one. In any event, it has become without question an important social and cultural phenomenon, perhaps a barometer. Is Nolan’s attitude toward war, heroism and society, which obviously differs from the ancient Greek poet’s, a contribution or an unwanted intrusion? What is lost in Nolan’s The Odyssey, aside from the scenes inevitably excised for reasons of time or budget? But Nolan’s film has a dryness and even glumness at times that grates.