Tenet

Year:	2020
Country:	International
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Drama, Thriller
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	6.4 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	7 Have Seen


Director	Christopher Nolan
Selected Cast	Elizabeth Debicki
	John David Washington
	Robert Pattinson
	Aaron Taylor-Johnson
	Ivo Uukkivi as Uniformed Official
Soundtrack	Ludwig Göransson

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Tenet - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment - USA (2020)

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Tenet - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment - USA (2020)

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Magic Marmalade 8th Feb 2023		Rated 6/10 Just had a rewatch, having found a DVD copy in the charity shop, and I've got to say it actually seems worse second time around. The overly convoluted plot twists (it's one long plot twist!) remain confusing to watch, even if you know what's coming... in fact knowing what's coming only serves to highlight how messy it is. (This really kills the dramatic aspect of it being a movie, if most of the time you are gazing into space with a look on your face like: "Did I leave the stove on?" and not absorbing the drama on screen) While the end gets stronger and better, the elephant in the room remains the incomprehensible, and questionable physics, which are only lightly explained with the cod-physics expositions / dialogue... a logical knot that Nolan tied himself up in due to the great flash of inspiration of the original idea. But the real surprise on the second watch was becoming aware of actually, just how tedious this film is... it is a boring movie! I realise now, that if you take away the surprise elements of a first time watch, and see / hear past the soundtrack that heightens suspense, and the dazzling backward cinematography, Even the action set-pieces are slow, and go on far too long. Shame, as the idea of a sci-fi James Bond / Bourne intrigue thing was a thrilling concept. Probably now, Nolan's worst movie...not a classic by any stretch. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 6th Jan 2021		Rated 6/10 Sci-fi James Bond style time heist palindrome movie ...Basically, a complete mind - f*&k in a can :) And while this nothing less than we have come to expect from Christopher Nolan - his usual twist on otherwise long established ideas make you look past the fact that a lot of what is here, you've seen before. It does borrow heavily from, or allude to modern, Daniel Craig era James Bond movies, both in terms of style, character types and presentation, replete with stereotypical (almost offensively broad) characterization of Russian baddie... (gives Kenneth Brannagh a chance to show off his more exotically terrifying slices of acting ham! :) John David Washington is hugely impressive in the "Bond" style lead character, with huge prescence, even though he is playing opposite Elizabeth Debicki's giraffe. The problem really is about the subject matter... in that you're always on thin ice when trying to make sense of time travel, especially in the face of a savvy audience, who's prime occupation these days is to pick holes in the shaky physics of it all (rather than enjoy the movie)... ...And after all, the ones that work in this area of sci-fi hit the sweet spot, of giving just enough physics (explanations thereof) to give the impression you know what you are talking about, and to set up the dramatic potential of the story, but without degenerating into ever more desperate logical justifications that cause characters to give on screen lectures about it while the premise dissolves like wet tissue paper just as quickly as the audience begins looking at their phones instead. (Nobody questions the time travel of Back to the Future for this reason... it don't get in the way of the yarn!) ...But even this would be too simple for Mr. Nolan, and has, instead, attempted a movie as technical exercise in constructing a narrative palindrome... and it really does seem he's finally bitten off more than he can chew here. I think he's buried the fact that he doesn't know the logical inconsistencies here in obscurity and obfuscation: Give a a couple of mind bending explanations using big words and people will believe it means something, even though it's clearly horseshit. But, it's something new, and makes you work as a viewer (a blessed relief in today's movie terms), and oddly, given the subject matter, unpredictable, and there's enough action and suspense to keep you interested, and distract you from probing too deeply into how the magic trick is done. Two outstanding issues though (perhaps they are the same issue?), is that this seems to be set up as being only half the story (palindrome), which could be why it doesn't quite work as such, as is, so a sequel should be on the cards, or resolution at least... and this is even more suggested by the fact that the huge set piece at the start, which has a couple of unexplained moments in it does not appear, or referenced at all at the end... which is where I suspect any potential sequel would end. Notably, no co-writing credit on this movie for Nolan's brother, and frequent collaborator (probably could have helped square this up a bit more), and no Hans Zimmer score this time... but instead a very experimental backwards, Aphex Twin does 1980s Tron soundtrack jangle and scrape fest... which is both consistent with the images on screen, and really interesting ! (one to seek out I think!) So possibly a case of Christopher Nolan's reach finally exceeding his grasp... (and makes you wonder what he has to do to up the ante for his next movie from this!) ... And is a thrill to see first time round, but I don't think it will be as good to watch in the necessary repeat viewing. 9 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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