Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey has faced an online boycott campaign from right-wing critics objecting to its diverse casting, modern dialect and other creative choices, some branding it a "psyop" against Western culture. Despite this coordinated backlash, amplified partly via Elon Musk's social media platform, the film has opened to enormous commercial success, suggesting the campaign has had little real-world impact on public enthusiasm.

Early ticket sales point to a roughly $200 million worldwide opening, potentially making it Nolan's most profitable non-Batman film, with resale tickets reportedly fetching up to $1,000 and IMAX screenings selling out nationwide. The film also holds a 96% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. The author's own account of a cancelled screening due to a power outage—initially suspected as sabotage—turned out to be an unrelated regional grid fault, underscoring how the anti-Odyssey backlash has largely failed to dent the film's popularity or box office trajectory.