Despite The Odyssey receiving pre-release backlash from some people in the MAGA-verse, right-wing influencer Ben Shapiro is a fan of Christopher Nolan‘s take on the epic story.
“The movie is a masterpiece,” he declares in an 18-minute review posted to YouTube, in which he gives the film an 8.5/9 on a 10-point scale. He praises Matt Damon as Odysseus and Robert Pattinson as Antinous and Tom Holland as Telemachus and has little issue with Zendaya as Athena and Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.
“I know a lot of people were like, ‘Oh my God, Lupita Nyong’o is supposed to look like Diane Kruger.’ I don’t know. Diane Kruger doesn’t look very Greek. She’s German,” Shapiro pushes back. Rapper Travis Scott as Bard is a bit jarring, but he has a small part. And Zendaya not looking especially Greek doesn’t bother Shapiro in the least.
“Casting Zendaya in that role doesn’t change anything … Zendaya does a fine job, doesn’t bother me at all,” he adds.
But Shapiro takes issue with Elliot Page as Sinon.
