The Odyssey delivers epic cinema and big questions for Christian parents

Charles Merritt loved this sweeping new adaptation of Homer’s classic, which blends stunning visuals and mythic adventure with themes of hospitality, justice, and the search for true belonging, offering plenty for Christian families to discuss after the credits roll

Film: The Odyssey

Age rating: 15

Runtime: 172 minutes

See this if you liked: Oppenheimer, Gladiator

The Odyssey lives up to the hype

Synopsis:

Odysseus finds himself on an epically long journey home, whilst his son desperately searches for him before it’s too late and his kingdom falls into the wrong hands.

Review:

It’s the biggest film of the year so far, and absolutely the longest, but The Odyssey lives up to the hype.

With a nearly three-hour runtime, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d feel it, but the pace and the narrative move so quickly that the film never really allows you a moment to breathe before you’re thrown into the next insane sequence of events. It didn’t feel like three hours and yet by the end of the film I was ……