An AI Studio Made a 2.5-Hour Movie — and It's a Mess
A $10 AI-made film shows exactly why Hollywood isn't being replaced yet.
Andrew Webster of The Verge watched Odysseus: The Fall, a 2.5-hour retelling of the Odyssey made entirely with AI by the firm Fountain 0 and written and directed by cofounder Ash Koosha. It rents for $9.99 and, as far as he can tell, can only be watched in a web browser. Webster found the film plagued by inconsistency: the cyclops's height changes from shot to shot, waves move against the wind, mouths don't match the words spoken, oars bend and twist, one boat in a fleet moves sideways, and the names Odysseus and Zeus are pronounced wrong. A sword turns into a dagger, and an alien carcass roasts over a spit. Beyond the errors, he calls it dull, boring, and ugly, a disjointed collection of few-second AI clips. He writes that it's the opposite of a glimpse at the future of AI filmmaking — it'll make you wonder if there's any future in it at all.
- Fountain 0's new film Odysseus: The Fall was made almost entirely by AI — the voices, the music, and even the lead actor's face.
- It costs $9.99 to rent and only works in a web browser, so you can't easily watch it on your TV.
- Reviewers found dozens of glitches and called the movie boring, not just broken — a sign AI still can't tell a real story.
Why It Matters
AI can make flashy clips, but a real movie still needs human writers, editors, and actors.