India, July 7 -- The world premiere of Christopher Nolan's epic, The Odyssey, was held in London on Monday. The cast and the crew descended upon the red carpet, and were also joined by select film critics from the US and theUK. Now the first reactions to the film are out, and they are overwhelmingly positive, hailing it as Nolan's crowning achievement and calling it a masterpiece filled with some of the 'best performances' of the cast's careers.

Many of the critics who watched The Odyssey on Monday took to social media to share their reactions to the film later in the day. The immediate consensus is heavy praise for the scale on which Nolan has mounted the epic and the innovativeness with which he has incorporated the supernatural elemen...