I watched Tenet for the first time and fell in love with it kind of the same
way a kid falls off a bike even though you didn't quite get it on
the first try you want to keep giving it a shot because you know at some point
it's going to bring joy tenet is directed by
christopher nolan and stars john david washington
robert pattinson and elizabeth debicki we're introduced to a cia agent only
referred to as the protagonist played by john david washington he's
recruited into a secret operation given only the word tenet and a gesture
to begin investigating Washington visits a facility where he
learns that in the future technology has been
developed that allows objects to be reversed and
moved backwards through time with the potential to end all human life
the protagonist recruits Neil played by Robert Pattinson
to help track the origins of where these inverted bullets are manufactured
they sneak into a compound of an arms dealer and she tells the protagonist
that the bullets had been normal when she had sold them
and that a Russian named Andre Sator who can communicate with the future
had reversed them to reach Andre the protagonist approaches his wife
kat so he can uncover more details about his operation
if you see this movie in theaters get there early and get comfortable you're
not going to want to leave for refills the first half of this movie you're
getting to know the characters the plot and more importantly getting to know the
rules of time inversion which is this movie's take on time
travel inversion is explained well and relatively simple to understand but
there are some scenes that happen very quickly so you have to pay
attention if you watch it and your head's spinning a little bit
don't worry it happened to all of us it starts all coming together about
halfway through the movie i went to go see this in a theater and
there was a couple in front of me about 30 minutes in the woman walked out
for some reason and when she came back I just heard the
guy say I don't know I don't know just pay attention it was
funny because i knew she was going to ask and at that
point nobody in the theater knew what was going on
the performances were all fantastic in this movie
john david washington robert pattinson and kenneth branagh
they killed it I would have liked to see more of Michael Caine's character
I mean when you got an actor of that caliber put the guy to work you know
what I mean and I did see an instance or two where
Elizabeth Debicki kind of was slipping out of character
but don't get me wrong she did an exceptional job as a matter of fact I
think most people will emotionally connect
to her character cat the most because of her performance and the situation
that her character is in i'm not going to get into that situation
for spoiler reasons we don't get a lot of a backstory on
Washington's and Pattinson's character so it's hard to relate to them at times
for those two characters most of the intrigue comes from the mission at hand
which most of the time is enough to keep you glued there were some excellent
practical effects in this movie for example the crashing of a real boeing
747 into an airport hangar it's never been
done before it was a spectacle to see it was awesome
there was a building that seems to reassemble itself
while also blowing up and it'll probably be the only time you will see a
simultaneous backwards and forward car chase
with intersecting and overlapping timelines
the film looks amazing in every way the cinematography
the color grading exotic locations it's visually stunning
and it's mostly done in-camera wherever CGI
was inserted it was very seamless and unrecognizable which is
exactly what you want and that brings me to probably the only thing i didn't like
about the visuals a lot of people won't have a problem
with this but it was the use and i felt overuse of the
practical reverse effect in other words playing the footage
backwards you get a lot of it in this movie
i don't like that effect in any movie it's just a pet peeve of mine
i've always felt in most cases there's a better effect that can be substituted
but when you combine all the reversing and time travel
it gets a bit convoluted to nolan's credit he did use the reverse effect
better than i've ever seen it used before
there's a particular scene where people are moving forward and backward at the
same time and fighting that was actually extremely creative and
cool to watch it's probably just me maybe i was a
breach baby and i get anxiety from seeing things go the wrong way
i don't know but i'm sure a lot of people will be fine with
it and actually enjoy it if you are able and feel comfortable i highly recommend
go see tennant in a theater two reasons one is it's just better all
around experience but two the sound design it leaves a lot
to be desired many scenes are hard to hear sometimes
the characters are wearing masks for different reasons
and sometimes the score is a little too loud over the dialogue
ever since dark knight rises with tom hardy as bane
it's as if nolan purposefully wants the audience to have trouble
hearing what characters are saying maybe to make the audience pay attention more
i'm not sure but he's been putting a lot more priority on sound effects and score
over dialogue recording nolan has said in past interviews he doesn't like doing
ADR which is the re-recording of actors in
the studio after production he wants the audience to experience the
sound recording as it was on set just make sure that whatever setup you
watch this movie on has a good sound system personally i
think christopher nolan is one of the best
most creative and original directors working today
Tenet is not his best movie by a long shot
but i did enjoy it if you like James Bond movies or
a good smart thriller you're gonna like Tenet
i just wanna see it a time or two more just to catch all the details
but for now i give it three and a half stars out of five
on our star scale did nolan outsmart himself in this movie let me know what
you thought about Tenet in the comments below
and for now that's our take we'll see you next time
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