I agree with a lot of this (though I disagree that Nolan is giving us "massacres" purely as "spectacle"). I enjoyed the movie and was legitimately moved by certain parts of it but felt the incoherence that Wilson describes, most acutely in Odysseus's return to Ithaca and his uncomplicated relationship to vengeance. His remorse feels narrow, to use Wilson's word. I don't think Nolan would've gotten away without a climactic battle between Odysseus and the suitors, but it would have felt more coherent if Odysseus would have at least expressed a sense of grief or troubled resignation at the necessity for more bloodshed, or concern for what his son was about to witness and the message he might take away from it. In general, revenge narratives are the quickest way to lose me these days. The Revenant, Wind River, Out of the Furnace - there was a rash of films in the mid-2010s in which the ending scene was just one person killing another, usually amid a cold, impartial wilderness, in what was meant to be a cathartic act. It's tiresome. I wish Christopher Nolan would have been more inventive with this part of the story as he was with so many others.  

I'm particularly loving people's suggestions for other Odyssey-esque journeys and Odysseus-like characters in media: in this piece Wilson offers up the Die Hard movies ("action-packed tales of one man’s dangerous journey back to his wife") and Timoni West relates Odysseus to Ferris Bueller:

Cocky, clever, egotistical, selfish, creating his own adventures for the hell of it, friends rightfully have meltdowns because of him, partner adores him beyond reason, made it home safe cause the gods smile upon him, wise but often dumb, and we all love him anyway.

A reply to West's post suggests James Bond(s):

In terms of comparisons I think of James Bond — say Roger Moore (smirking, arrogant, charming etc) — compared to say the dark grieving/traumatised Daniel Craig version.