USA is fighting against Russia in a war. (They call it World War but only two countries are fighting and there's no actual soldiers or fight sequences).
So USA sends a spy to Cambridge to learn quantum physics so that they can use quantum time bombs to blast Russia. They end up sending an insomniac psycho named Robert J Oppenheimer. His first mission is to kill his professor so that he could take up his role. so he pretends to be bad at experiments so that his professor would ask him to stay late and finish the work. During the time, when no one is around, he poisons the professor's apple. But instead of his professor, someone else tries to eat the apple. Oppenheimer pushes the apple from his hand. So, he gets expelled from Cambridge for disrespecting a Professor. But he soon joins a college in Switzerland or Germany. When he understands that he can't learn it anymore, he starts his own institute in USA and invites the best people from around the world to work with him.
He inspires the scientists by showing the articles of how Hitler is fighting bravely. (It's an irony here because USA is not sending it's soldiers to Russia. It's forming a team of scientists with zero military experience to fight against Russia.)
Then Oppenheimer goes to the war zone (a boundary between USA and Russia, where no one is present). The military secures the area for them and waits for Russia to attack. He brings in all professors from his university to that protected zone. They're so untrained in war, and they're not computer engineers. So they don't even know how to Google to find the way to make a bomb. (It's too bad the USA is portrayed as a country with very old technology. The directors could have watched movies like Iron Man to learn modern technology).
Finally they build a bomb. They keep trying to use it to destroy Russia from the border. But in all their attempts, their explosion is too small that it doesn't kill anyone. Some people even use 3D glasses and makeup set to watch the bomb blast like it's an entertainment show. (I guess they all are Russian soldiers making fun of American bombs. That part is still not clear.)
After that something happens to USA. The quantum physics acts on them. Everyone starts to live in a dual state. Wherever Oppenheimer goes, everything will be too loud, people's skin will start peeling out, there will be too much light etc. (The director indirectly shows the effects of working with quantum technology for too long. It takes everyone to this dual state.)
Finally, the accountant Stern from Schindler's list makes a cameo. He accuses Oppenheimer for being a Russian spy because all his explosions were wasted and he won't increase the power of the bombs anymore.
Oppenheimer reveals in a confession that when the innocent friend of the professor was about to eat the poisoned apple, he realized that war could kill innocent people (not just the soldiers). So he stopped studying, and pretended to run an institute. He had purposely reduced the power of the bombs so that they wouldn't kill anyone. (The Schindler's list reference is the highlight. There's a paper showing how Hitler is killing the Jews and then Schindler's accountant, Stern gives a job to Oppenheimer, who eventually accuses him for being a Russian spy)
Overall it's below average. The graphics could have been improved. The bomb blast looked so fake. We have better technology today. Some videos look like they have been shot with a hand camera in the 50s. The newby director, Nolan has a lot to learn. Whenever the actors performed poorly, the music was so loud to cover. Thats kind of intelligent but it's easy to find out if you observe clearly. They didn't have a nice cast. They took some of the actors from OTT series such as Peaky Blinders, The Boys, Mr. Robot etc to play important roles. The hero doesn't get a chance to fight the villain hand to hand. Maybe it will come in a sequel. The movie must have had very low budget that some of the scenes had to be shot in black and white. Find a good producer, dude.
