Matt Damon's 10/10 Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Essential Viewing After Becoming Streaming Smash Hit

After The Odyssey, another Matt Damon survival story is finding a huge new audience more than a decade after its release. Matt Damon has led one of the biggest movies of the summer in The Odyssey, playing the legendary Greek king Odysseus as he battles monsters, gods, storms, and seemingly everything else the ancient world can throw at him just to return home to his wife. Christopher Nolan's epic has earned more than $1.2 billion worldwide, putting it among 2026's biggest movies and on the summer blockbuster podium alongside Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Odyssey may be one of the oldest stories ever told, but Hollywood has spent decades returning to a strangely familiar plot of its own: getting Matt Damon home. He's been a stranded soldier whose rescue sends Tom Hanks and his squad across occupied France in Saving Private Ryan, a young cowboy searching for a new life south of the border in All the Pretty Horses, and an astronaut marooned on a distant planet in Interstellar. At this point, putting Damon somewhere impossibly far away and asking how he'll make it back is practically its own subgenre. And one of the best examples is suddenly getting serious attention again. Ridley Sco