Elon Musk promised a full-length AI film of Homer's Odyssey by year end.
Grok Imagine released episode one on X on Friday, October 23.
Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker made it with a team of three.
The episode shows Odysseus leaving home to fight at Troy.
Homer's poem opens ten years after the Trojan War has ended.
Peter Bradshaw gave the episode one star in the Guardian.
A Telegraph reviewer called the film sloppy gruesomeness.
Reviewers listed classic AI video flaws in faces and hair.
Electrek editor Fred Lambert called it pure garbage on X.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey cost $250 million and made $1.8 billion.
Wonder Studios promises a radically better second episode.
About ten weeks remain for Musk's full-length film promise.
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