I expected The Odyssey to be an epic in the artistic vein of The Lord of the Rings or Dune movies, but to me it much more closely resembles the "sword & sandals" event movies that the old Hollywood studio system loved so much (parodied hilariously in the Coen Brothers film Hail Caesar).
It feels every bit as historically-informed as those films were (not much) but even more self-serious.
It is a film that pretends to show another time & place but which never challenges you with the unfamiliar.
