This is gonna sound so mean but it’s because Nolan is an accesible director who makes movies for the masses that make them feel smart, so when intellectuals/academics/actual cinephiles critique his work those masses feel like they’re getting called stupid by proxy
Even without the ongoing debate surrounding the film, I'm surprised how few people are just saying the obvious: Nolan's The Odyssey is actually a very mediocre film. Some of the visuals are typically great (I loved the Hades sequence). However, the dialogue is very cringeworthy.