With no glint of Iron Man’s suit in sight, the actor approaches a role with depth and, more importantly, restraint
is light on laughs, but in its final moments, there’s something that comes close to one . It does not belong to man of the three hours J. Robert Oppenheimer , but Robert Downey Jr.’s character, Charles Strauss, who manages to paint himself, with an exquisite flair for self-sabotage, into a corner. At the end of Christopher Nolan’s film, it’s a rare moment of levity: a welcome release after many sequences of frantic laboratory research and boardroom debates. It also, handily, provides Downey Jr.
The biopic-cum-thriller-cum-science lesson, which is out today, charts the uh, explosive success of the American scientist, who studied at multiple esteemed institutions – including England’s very own Cambridge University, where he tried to murder his teacher with a poisoned apple – before settling at Los Alamos Laboratory in the Californian desert to begin the work for which he is most famous: The Manhattan Project.
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