Tenet

🎬 Christopher Nolan on Tenet 🧠🚫 “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.” ❤️🎶 — Christopher Nolan 🎥✨ ⏳🔄 A perfect reflection of how Nolan wanted audiences to experience Tenet: less overthinking, more immersion.

Tenet

Was there ever an actual good idea for this movie? If there was it was 100% lost in translation. One of the most frustrating and ridiculous movies I have ever seen. And the music over the vocal audio all the freaking time is plain stupid. Not only is this movie not worth paying for it's not worth your time to watch it for free.

Had high expectations but the movie is long and boring. It had such an confusing plot that tricks you into thinking the movie is "actually good". It's quite slow paced, nor suspenseful and hated the sound mixing, too loud, unable to hear the dialogues due to that is just unforgivable. People are giving 10/10 ratings and praises, ignoring the plotholes and obvious flaws cause directed by Nolan. Think they're doing him a favour but we have to call out such things, else we keep gonna get mediocre movies. I'm sure because of blind fanaticism, same people not gonna find my review helpful, either. Original rating is 4/10, giving it 1 for balancing the high rating.

***** Potential SPOILERS ***** Tenet follows the great Nolan tradition of really bad sound. It annoyingly loud and at times you can't hear what characters are saying. Nolan, fire your sound mixer. If you're mixing it yourself, fire yourself and get someone who knows what they're doing. Really s#!t work. It's also really badly edited (whether that's strictly editing or the script itself, who knows?). Some scenes happen with zero segue, and then at other points the movie gets bogged down. Unfortunately it's hard to care about the characters and story. Everything is a bit too rushed, and you don't have time to really soak it up and enjoy it. The time-bendiness is classic Nolan, but it's obscure and difficult to get a grasp on. Maybe the film will fare better with repeated viewings, but after a one-off watching it's potential tantalizingness is significantly diminished. Yes, there are some great things to ponder, but the core narrative of the story is buried so deep that it becomes a little ineffective. There is a reason for the time-bendiness, but it's obscured and to be honest I was a bit weary by the time it was all revealed. The basic plot of the film is okay, but I didn't really dig the "inversion" part. It's clunky and odd. Some great ideas and scenes, but overall it was difficult to follow clearly. Plus, the time-bendiness is never really explored in a way that lets you revel in it. Rather, it's hidden and revealed bit by bit which unfortunately means that you don't get to fully enjoy it. There's no theme here, at least in the way that other Nolan films have; Inception was about redemption, Interstellar was about the power of love or something, the Prestige was about revenge etc etc. This one doesn't really have that. Not a bad thing, though. The acting is okay, but Nolan never gives the audience time to settle in. The relationship between Washington and Debicki's characters seems to be important, but why? Who knows? Neither character is given time to answer that question sufficiently. This is really the main problem here. The pacing of the film is a bit all over the place, and it's hard to get involved with it. It jumps about from scene to scene at times with no explanation. I mean, I was able to follow it, but a few times I was asking "What are they doing and why?" and it took a while to understand (I'm not talking about the time-bendiness here either), which really diminished the film. In one scene, they're trying to get to a particular character. Why? You don't know till the scene is halfway finished. So instead you just sit there and watch them do some admittedly neat action scenes, but it's undermined because I have no idea what the goal is. Overall, it's okay. It spends too much time trying to hide it's big reveals for them to be effective, and it's too rushed/badly paced to get into. I hope that repeated viewings (on Netflix) will make it better.

Clémence Poésy character says in the film "Don't try to understand it. Feel it." And later Pattinson character ask to the main character "Does your head hurt yet?" While he is trying to explain part of the plot to The Protagonist and to us as an audience, this is basically the whole movie, visually is great, the score even being loud is also great, the concept of moving backwards is also a great idea that give a lot great scenes, but when you stop to realize, a lot of things don't make a lot of sense.

The Nolan team don't skimp on the 'epic'ery of their films (although they may have to after the pandemic eats into the box office of this one). It's not just a movie, it IS cinema. It's like one, long advertisement for the new techno-fad of temporal flipping. They go about it as casually as a young technology sales person explaining the latest smartphone to you. You only kind of understand what they're saying but what they're SHOWING you is so cool you just go along with it. It is a good film to help understand TIME as potentially the next great expanse to be explored. There's a scene in Avengers: Endgame where they belittle concepts of time presented in Back To The Future and almost every other time-related sci-fi movie. Well, TeneT makes Endgame's own concept of time travel seem rudimentary. Unique & interesting characters from John David Washington (3 names so gotta be good), Pattinson, Debicki, Brannagh & more! Some of the most bizarre action sequences to ever unoccur on film. Good.

I'm a massive Nolan fan and love Inception which I was hoping this was going to be like but it's nothing of the sort and very poor! The story isn't that complex once you finally find out what's happening but for a Nolan film I expected far better.

I have only seen this once, and have no plans to see it again to 'understand' it better. The dialogue is so muffled, I could barely understand a word anyone said. Michael Caine had one scene and he had to talk with food in his mouth for the entire scene. It was a deliberate directors choice to garble all words. Not just in that scene, but in all of them. When they were having a conversation, they had removed all the structure words (the, and, a) and just had a "baby talk" conversation using long scientific terms that they didn't understand themselves. If a conversation ever started to make sense, he would cover it with loud music and aeroplane noises. So loud, I literally had to cover my ears it was hurting. The mix was dreadful. One moment it was super loud, then the very next they were mumbling in whispers. I never experienced such a bad sound mix as this. As for the plot? Again, it makes no sense. Gunshot wounds don't "heal" in reverse time. You cant just make up nonsense stupid plot devises, that make no sense if they have three hours to get to a hospital. THREE HOURS! There is more, but this film is so bad I have better things to do.

Tell me, if everything is going backwards, should't they speak out the words and sentences the same way - backwards? But no, they speak normal laguage. And if you think about logics and details, it's the same - it's only flaws in there. Acting is okay, though, and visuals are great. But if you are looking for sense, it is not the case.