Matt Damon: The Odyssey Is 'Exactly What You Want Of A Summer Movie'

Matt Damon is no stranger to big-screen spectacle. With the Jason Bourne movies, he helped reinvent the spy movie so thoroughly, it left James Bond running to keep up; he made complex heists look like easy money in the Ocean’s trilogy; he single-handedly escaped Mars (with his own ‘fertiliser’) in The Martian . The guy was literally Private Ryan, of Saving fame. So, when he says that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a total cinematic blockbuster – meticulous craft in service of eye-popping popcorn-ready thrills – you believe him. And that’s precisely what he says. As he tells Empire , in our world-exclusive The Odyssey issue , Nolan’s latest is “exactly what you want of a summer movie.” Given everything the legendary director has at his disposal? “It should be the m