Time for a film which rumour has it has left out most of act 3 for its promotion, which in 2026 is a bold move, but i am so here for it & ive even muted it on social media as i know people were seeing it wednesday & i dint want to be ruined with people opinion after the embargo came out on monday saying you either love it or hate it. So no pressure Disclosure Day & Spielberg… not.

i saw the 4:15 showing on friday in screen 1 at cineworld. Id say there was about 40 people in the cinema which isnt bad, screen 1 is the biggest screen we have, & technically its still work hours for people, im just lucky i finish early on a friday, so this was good timing for me. Id say it was a proper mix of ages as well in the cinema for this. Everyone is very intrigued by it.

Trailers, Spider man (yes) Oak street (im getting more convinced) Toy Story (yes booked) Super girl (how have i only just realised its jason mamoa) & then we got it. I had heard a rumour this was happening in america before imax screenings… but i had it at a normal screening… THE ODYSSEY! yep the brand new trailer the rest of the world wont see until next week & lets just say the whole cinema was once again locked in for this. I cant believe im going to learn Greek mythology from Nolan & Damon. Im so hooked already. & im ready for the ticket fight for IMAX on monday this week.

Anyhow sorry, but you know me im a nolan girl…

& then after than the film started… what nolan trialer? Seriously i havent had that kind of emotional response to a film in a very very long time.

This is going to be really hard to review & not spoil when theres so much to talk about, but i also want people to go in knowing as little as possible, so maybe go watch it then come back & read this.

I found it strangely peaceful this movie. Like i was almost accepting my fate & the truth even before we really got going & then having it be questioned throughout the film maybe made the ending even more calming for me. That last 15 to 10 minutes of the film deeply moved me & the way it was portrayed with acceptance & everyone realising this is more than just them, it moved me a lot. I had a major emotional attachment to it & i cried. I cried a lot. So much so that i actually am typing this up quiet early on like even before my intro is written on the day i saw this even though you will see this in a few weeks time, as basically when i think about the end, i well up & have to take a few deep breaths not to cry. I also had to park on my way home as i was trying to explain the film to someone & i had to calm down wipe my eyes & drink some water. It effected me a lot. It almost felt like it justified somethings i believe in & whats to come. Im not religious at all (film is my religion) but it felt cathartic. & i think that this is a good thing with this film, because it questions those with faith & those without into what they see & what they believe & it does it in a rather grown up way. It doesnt say what you believe in is the be all & end all but it takes what ever you feel very seriously & that there is no real answer & how you find peace with it is good enough for you & no one else should have an issue with what brings calm & joy to you.

There is also just before we fully get into act 3 a panic attack scene that happens. That made me cry as well. Ive had a couple of people message me after seeing the film going is that what happens to you some times, which also gave me faith in humanity that people watched that scene with Emily Blunt acting her arse off (which she does do for the entire film shes phenomenal) & they were like oh i need to check in on you to make sure your okay. Once again giving hope to us all. IT was also most spot on, i just wish i had someone sometimes to tell me when im in the peak of mine to tell me its okay & to breath. That would be nice. To anyone who suffers from Panic or anxiety attacks, you really arent alone. (i may have just cried after writing that.)

Everyone was really good in this film. There was no crap acting performance. I mean come on it made me want to slap Colin Firth, one of the most likeable british actors who is always good guy, thats saying something. But i had a few people message me going whos that girl & im like its Bonos kid & they were all like fuck off.

I like exactly where we start (shout out to wrestling & Chavo Gurrero) it feels like we are already a good portion fo the film into the story. In theory we join the film in act 2 of it even though its act 1 for us & we learn as we go along, its very clever.

There are some rather grim moments & not nice parts of the film to watch which are unsettling. Some of the archive footage used at he start isnt nice. Also the end of the world thats currently going on in this film also so bloody typical with whats going on.

When it ended, we did all collectively breathe & come to a relaxed state. The tension & the drama was heightened. We rarely had times to be calm or of relief, i now think thats why the panic attack was included just so we could all calm down (expect for us who have that). I can see why some people thought there were miss sold though. The chases were minimal in this film & it was but wasnt a movie about aliens with an invasion people were expecting. But i think thats why its worked. If you want that film theres plenty of other films like that for you to watch out there, even by stephen. This was a much calmer grown up approach. All the chases felt like something like that would happen at that time. They werent for the sake of it.

I love that the trailer hardly showed any of act 3. I loved that. I get some people are like hang on, but honestly it meant for the last 35mins i didnt know what was going to go down at all. I was sat there going oooh show me, not realising how much it was going to ruin me.

Its really bad that people can just disappear by either corporations with to much power or the government, like its really bad. How can they be allowed to do that.

We had a few scenes that were filmed or carefully edited to make it look like one take, it was only during the second of these i realised that. They along with the score really helped the film flow so effortlessly.

We had 3 McGuffins to find or that people were after, it was never fully explained how they learnt each’s properties & why some worked one way & some another. It was a race against time to get a hold of them & for the right people to have them.

I liked the flashback, that was very cleverly done. It is a bit weird that Colman would know what Emilys childhood house & bedroom would be like but yet it felt just right. Also even though we knew the flash backs would change them it worked & it just despite being what could have been quite painful & traumatic was done beautifully. But i guess i now need to check on my fox in my garden for a few things.

We didnt exposition dump for the sake of it. You learnt when they did. So much so that the corporation was just bland & didnt matter other than what they were actually doing.

This does feel like 2h30 but once we got to the end i was so engaged, that it didnt matter how long i had been sat there, i was fully involved & ready to give it all to the film & be so alone but also so collectively together with everyone in my screening at the same time.

Can we give the new reported in act 3 an oscar please.

We do need a religion & politics conversation but maybe not right now.

This film had a profound impact on me that i was not expecting at all. I was just expecting another scifi film which tried to be grown up but no it was so much deeper than that. It just touched my soul in away i hadnt experienced in the cinema in a long long time. This is definitely a contender for my film of the year.