2 weeks later, after many interruptions, I managed to finish watching it with my wife.
Passable movie but very disappointing considering the hype.
Discussion
Too little Feynman. No Von Neumann, Dirac, Pauli, etc?
All the focus of the movie in the communist accusations and macarthyism was boring and pointless. The bomb matters, not if Oppie was really a commie.
I don't think the scale and complexity of Los Alamos was really properly portrayed, it was just brushed over.
I enjoyed the war room scene where they were deciding the japanese targets. That was the most significant part of the movie for me. Intense, filled with dillema.
Run time of 3.5 hours but it feels like it should have been 1.5. Subpar Nholan picture.
Yeah I was disappointed myself. Too much drama. Not enough historical accuracy. For people with no historical knowledge it probably seemed pretty educational, and in broad strokes it would have been for them.