India, July 23 -- When Christopher Nolan adapts one of the greatest stories ever told, you'd expect even the Greek gods to take notice. But is Nolan's The Odyssey, with its glorious set design and grand scale, just as riveting as Homer's three-thousand-year-old epic?

Let's start with the film's biggest departure from its source material. The omission of the 'Nobody' wordplay scene has become one of adaptation's most hotly debated choices. Many fans of Greek myth consider it the moment where The Odyssey truly begins. For context, in the Homeric epic, when the hero and his men are stuck in the cave of Cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus tricks them by saying his name is "Nobody". As a result, the giant's cries for help are ignored entirely and Od...