The Odyssey Twitter reviews: Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus has audiences calling it ‘greatest ever’, predicting Oscars

The film, which reportedly cost $250m (£185m), doesn’t just need an audience to show up.

In an era where movie stars no longer guarantee box office success, Christopher Nolan is in an elite class of filmmakers who are able to fill that void.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has generated enormous excitement ahead of its theatrical release this Friday, with advance bookings indicating it could deliver one of the biggest opening days ever for a Hollywood film in India.

The master of the epic blockbuster takes on the granddaddy of all epics with this summer’s “The Odyssey.” Christopher Nolan’s new film adaptation of Homer’s Ancient Greek saga stars Matt Damon as the wandering hero Odysseus, who must make his way — via many detours — home to his wife and son in Ithaca after helping lead the Greeks to victory in the Trojan War (a campaign covered in Homer’s other much-lauded poem, the “Iliad”).