Oppenheimer: The Real Story

J. Robert Oppenheimer is an interesting subject and so this documentary is interesting. But the Talking Heads spout a lot of conjecture. Actual facts were in short supply. I think they interview only one person that actually met Oppenheimer and they had no knowledge or contact from during or before Los Alamos. Curious I don't recall them mentioning when he was married and had kids until towards the end that he started visiting the Virgin Islands with his wife.

This easily could have been edited to under 30 minutes (from 98) without losing any real content.

If you really are interested in the high points (they don't go very in depth) of Oppenheimer's life and do not know any more than the fiction movie than it might be worth a watch. Otherwise there are much better biographies of his found on YouTube.

Seriously, as I titled my review, watching paint dry would be more interesting. The individuals who narrate this documentary speak so slow or they continually pause as if they constantly lose their train of thought. This documentary was a snooze fest and it should be marketed as a sure cure for people with insomnia. It was reminiscent of those boring films we were forced to watch in science class. The material on Oppenheimer is super interesting but this documentary hired the most uninteresting British folks who spoke as if their voices were putting their faces to sleep. Their monotone descriptions of Oppenheimer's early days were as far as I could get. I had to turn this boring documentary off only 15 minutes in.

No thanks!!

The bad reviews came from people who refuse to admit to or confront the truth, it exposes the Republican Party for what it is. Oppenheimer' demise came during the Eisenhower administration which also, at the behest of Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, overturned the democratic government of Iran, so that the British could keep their oil rights.

With these people reviewing movies it makes it extremely hard to take anything that I see on your app believable. It seems as though he's reviewers were encouraged to downplay this documentary to give the new movie " Oppenheimer" coming out more plausibility.

This movie is horrendous. Cheaply produced, terrible quality, messages repeated over and over again. None if the interviewees seemed like authority figures - just various folks that had probably done a bit of research the day before filming.

Undoubtedly edited on a dated iMac using iMovie.

At one part they tryed to recreate a burial at sea. Apparently they didn't have an urn to perform the reenactment. So, they just threw an old black propane cylinder into the water - to, I guess, give you the general idea.

Was this an attempt to cash in on the upcoming feature film? Undoubtedly.

Don't waste your money.

Ultra low budget documentary. Looks it was filmed with an iPhone and a crew of 2. Lots of historical footage and interviews with few people about the guy. The story was told well and was interesting and for a documentary it was too boring. My wife fell asleep in ten. It took me almost an hour. It did take me several more days to finish it Still I recommend the documentary before the movie. Good opportunity to refresh on historical events in chronological order and get the know the man biography. They could have told the story in an hour instead of ninety eight minutes. Or they could have made more effort to talk about similar programs overseas in comparison.