Tenet

Honestly seems like Nolan wanted to experiment with some wild filmmaking techniques and built a really weak movie around it. Confusing throughout. Mediocre acting.

A fundamentally dumb film with pretentions about being a sci-fi. The result is fairly tedious. I did not care for Inception, this was worse in every respect.

Tenet is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious storylines ever attempted in a film. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Tenet plays with the concepts of reality, time, and perspective. A convoluted adventure full of masterful visual effects, Tenet challenges the audience with its elaborate, enigmatic storyline in the best of ways. With a career-best lead performance from John David Washington, Tenet feels like an espionage film with a striking science fiction twist. Similarly to Inception, Nolan’s Tenet facilitates a story that encompasses theories of paradox. Though Tenet is not an easy film to understand, the challenge of solving the story alongside the protagonist is intoxicatingly interesting. Christopher Nolan and his use of practical visual effects will leave you speechless. Tenet wastes zero time in its opening act and tosses the audience into an intense, exhilarating experience. Though the story does often rely on heavy exposition, Tenet enhances its own narrative by building its science fiction elements around concepts that have been already addressed. Tenet slowly starts to work itself out as one continues to watch, but it does involve the audience taking a leap of faith and blindly following Nolan as he takes the audience on a journey for answers. In addition to a riveting lead performance from John David Washington, Robert Pattinson is truly special in his role. Elizabeth Debicki deserves to be in more projects because her storyline is the most emotionally compelling. Overall, Tenet is definitely a film that I want to revisit because I fully understand how this film can become significantly clearer on rewatch. John David Washington needs to be the lead in more films and Robert Pattinson proves he’s entertaining in any possible role in any kind of film. Christopher Nolan certainly challenges the audience with the plot of Tenet, but he definitely rewards them with the cinematic visual prowess of Tenet. The soundtrack by Travis Scott is mesmerizing and the score by Ludwig Göransson is hauntingly beautiful. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is significantly underutilized, but this might be by favorite career performance by Kenneth Branagh.

Christopher Nolan at his worst, he indulged his worst instincts and made a convoluted mess of a movie . The story is actually straight forward but purposefully made difficult to understand. The dramatic music which was will utilised in other films like inception was over used so much so that half way though it give me a head ack . The acting was insanely bad and you can’t hear half the dialogue. The ending is one of those slap your self in the head because it’s trite endings. Give it a miss and keep your respect for Nolan. It’s just a bad miss

It's the equivalent of a Michael Bay movie where all of his cliches and tropes are out of control and completely unchecked. Love of reverse storytelling, serious plot expose nonstop, love of practical effects, exploration of physics, extremely complicated plot, great direction, all of Nolans hallmarks are here. The direction is the one thing that keeps it from being absoluely abysmal. A testament to Nolan as a filmmaker. The lighting, practical effects, and framing are all really good. Even if you have no idea what is going on besides the vaugest and I mean vaguest of ideas, it's still pretty to look at. Problem is the scenes themselves just get very convuluted. Overall the cinematography isn't bad and also the acting is decent too. The lead is good and has charisma with some good physical acting. But there is one major problem with every character. There basically is none. Every word someone says here is used for plot expose. I can't tell you anything about any other character really. The music isn't bad either but a lot of it is just variations of BWHAMM....and it does get a bit old and blends in more than others at times. The editing isn't that good and the pacing is terrible. This throws sooooooooo much ideas at you so quickly that it doesn't let it all ferment and commit. It jumps right to the next, the next character,, or the next crazy thing without really explaining it well but yet it explains so much. It's so odd. This needed to be a slow burn like Interstellar or Oppenheimer to really let the ideas it has all be absorbed and developed with enriching characters. This just floors it. This also feels like chunks are missing. The character development and also just in general stuff that should be explained. The reverse editing of images is good here and the idea and structure itself is kind of cool. But after say 20 minutes in I genuinely had no idea what was going on and was along for the ride being carried by the cool images. I still have no idea how the word Tenet comes into play along with dozens of other things. Skip This. Not a trainwreck but easily Nolans worst film by a mile so far. I could probably understand this on a second watch but without character development to match there is no reason to.

An utterly unwatchable mess posing as a "scientific" movie.

I made it a little over half way before giving up in frustration - something I rarely do with even the worst films. But the irritations mounted up to the point that I was about to start shouting at the screen. The intrusive, incessant background track of annoying and loud sounds obscured the dialogue of actors whose elocution was shockingly bad. Calling Brando "Mumbles" seems comical by comparison. I particularly wanted to shake Debicki into intelligibility but she was only the worst of a bad lot. This was particularly egregious for Nolan behind the camera when his plot was overelaborate to the point of being virtually indecipherable as well. Overall, a clear case of the director/writer's reach exceeding his grasp. Perhaps struggling with it for ten years was a sign he should have acknowledged.

A mind-bending, time-travel thriller that in the hands of Nolan is a dazzling and entertaining feast. While not perfect, it's still a movie worth checking out.

Quiet underrated in my opinion.

Good film but hard to understand