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Tenet is absolutely everything I wanted and needed and clearly a big welcome back to the movies.
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Tenet
BlacKkKlansman's John David Washington and Robert Pattinson lead Oscar veteran Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller as espionage agents caught in a temporal conflict that could lead to catastrophe. Co-stars Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), with screen greats Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk) and Michael Caine (The Dark Knight) reteaming with Nolan.
An exceptional agent (Washington), only known as The Protagonist, is recruited for the coldest of cold wars - one involving unique radiation that allows matter to travel backwards in time. Paired with a veteran (Pattinson) in the field, their search leads them to a scorned woman (Debicki) willing to help take down the maniacal war kingpin (Branagh) who's taken advantage of this secret substance. However, when a time-inverting device becomes weaponised, The Protagonist is forced to see the world on a whole new level.
Best Visual Effects winner at the 2021 BAFTAs.
2020Rating: M, Science fiction themes, violence and coarse language150 minsUSA
ActionThrillerBlockbuster
- Director:
- Christopher Nolan ('Inception', 'Dunkirk', 'Interstellar')
- Writer:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- John David WashingtonRobert PattinsonElizabeth DebickiAaron Taylor-JohnsonMichael CaineKenneth BranaghClémence PoésyDimple Kapadia
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Tenet is self-indulgent and wildly in love with its own cleverness. While parts of it work extremely well, it just doesn't add up to a satisfying narrative.
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By the time it's done, you might not know what the hell's gone on, but it is exciting nevertheless. It is ferociously entertaining.
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Variety
A concrete cornucopia of global chaos and threat, in which humanity's survival depends on the minor matter of reshaping time and space, "Tenet" looks well suited to an anxious age.
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Total Film
The stakes have never been higher, but Tenet is exactly the film cinemas need right now.
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The Guardian
The world is more than ready for a fabulous blockbuster... It's a real shame Tenet isn't it.
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Los Angeles Times
Nolan's latest may well be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, or it may signify something imponderably resonant, and signify it forward, backward and inside out. Does your head hurt yet?
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Screen Daily
It's a dream ride... for the most part, for anyone looking for glitzy escapism, and who wouldn't include themselves in that demographic right now.
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The New York Times
Seek it out, if only to marvel at the entertainingly inane glory of what we once had and are in danger of never having again.
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Hollywood Reporter
Altogether, it makes for a chilly, cerebral film - easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity.
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Little White Lies
If Nolan has out-Nolaned himself, it's in the action set-pieces which, despite being of head-scrambling technical intricacy, are sharper than Occam's razor and carried off with astonishing economy.
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Sydney Morning Herald
No doubt avid students of the Nolan formula will get months of entertainment out of repeated viewings, but for me it was oddly tantalizing -- full of good things but ultimately frustrating.
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Time Out
After five months stuck in front of the small screen, maybe being a little overwhelmed is no bad thing. But it's hard to escape the sense that less might have been more.
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