After watching Odyssey

After watching Odyssey today, I realized something for certain.
When I watched the Marvel movie Shang-Chi with my children,
I didn't think it was bad, but I felt disappointed—the first time I've felt that way about a Marvel movie—due to the action. However, my sons said it had the best action of any Marvel movie they've seen so far.
As someone who grew up watching all sorts of Hong Kong martial arts films in the 80s and 90s, Shang-Chi's martial arts movements looked incredibly clumsy to me, but to the children, it was fresh and novel action they had never seen before.
I felt the exact same way about Odyssey today.
I didn't feel like it was a waste of money, but hmm, it wasn't exactly a movie I wanted to praise.
Why is that? Why is my review so mediocre?
After some thought, I reached this conclusion:
Although this type of movie is rare these days,
I saw a lot of this style and cinematography during the era when the Sword and Sorcery genre was popular.
Also, because scenes from classic films like Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and Gladiator—where thousands of actual extras were used in 70mm shots without CG—remain in my mind,
even though the scenes in Odyssey are good, they felt somewhat like mere props.
I am well aware that Director Nolan insists on IMAX and avoids CG, which means he cannot replicate the massive crowd battle scenes seen in Lord of the Rings or Cleopatra,
but I felt as if the screen felt small despite being IMAX.
Perhaps this movie, Odyssey, will be evaluated as the top of Nolan's filmography,
but to me, it feels like it sits somewhere in the middle.