Tenet

Name: Tenet
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Released: September 3, 2020
Duration: 150 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andrew Howard, Carina Velva, Clémence Poésy, Denzil Smith

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: September 3, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andrew Howard, Carina Velva, Clémence Poésy, Denzil Smith, Dimple Kapadia, Elizabeth Debicki, Fiona Dourif, Himesh Patel, Ivo Uukkivi, Jefferson Hall, John David Washington, Jonathan Camp, Juhan Ulfsak, Kenneth Branagh, Laurie Shepherd, Mark Krenik, Martin Donovan, Michael Caine, Rich Ceraulo, Robert Pattinson, Wes Chatham, Yuri Kolokolnikov

Summary: Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist (John David Washington) journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 150 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 25, 2020

For me, Tenet is preposterous in the tradition of Boorman’s Point Blank, or even Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, a deadpan jeu d’esprit, a cerebral cadenza, a deadpan flourish of crazy implausibility – but supercharged with steroidal energy and imagination. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Aug 26, 2020

Tenet reaches for cinematic greatness and, though it doesn’t quite reach that lofty goal, it’s the kind of film that reminds us of the magic of the moviegoing experience. Read full review

Matt Purslow

Aug 21, 2020

Tenet is not Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, but it is another thrilling entry into his canon. In a world where blockbuster cinema is dominated by franchises and sequels, it serves as an accomplished demonstration of the pleasures of unconnected and non-serialised original storytelling. But while it does tread new ground, Tenet is the ‘safest’ film from Christopher Nolan in some years. Following two recent ambitious movies from the filmmaker, Tenet feels a little conservative, as if Nolan’s style is a franchise rather than a framework. Despite this, it remains more interesting than most other tentpole movies and acts as a beacon for the director’s strengths. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Aug 21, 2020

It’s basically espionage adventure, but with a science fiction backbone: Nolan ups the ante on “Mission: Impossible” by making the impossibility not just physical but quantum physical. And he goes about it expertly, bullishly and with giddily perverse intent to bewilder. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Sep 2, 2020

Moviemaking doesn’t come any tauter or with more velocity. But that confusion is a warning. It’s going to apply to the entire movie; and the longer “Tenet” lasts, the more of an issue confusion becomes. Read full review

Nicholas Barber

Aug 21, 2020

You have to hand it to Nolan. To use the old expression, he puts the money on the screen, delivering the kind of noisy, extravagant and fundamentally ridiculous pulp fiction which reminds you why you go to the cinema. But it collapses under the weight of all the plot strands and concepts stuffed into it. You don’t get the impression, which you usually get from his films, that every element is precisely where it should be. Some parts of it go on too long, others not long enough. It’s a treat to see a really big film again, but a smaller one might have been better. Read full review

The Guardian Catherine Shoard

Aug 21, 2020

There’s something grating about a film which insists on detailing its pseudo-science while also conceding you probably won’t have followed a thing. We’re clobbered with plot then comforted with tea-towel homilies about how what’s happened has happened. Read full review

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KouroshMBD

Nov 30, 2020

Masterpiece. With brilliant sequences that make you feel excited. Specially some of them which shows inversion. AWESOME

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Deathstroke88

Dec 1, 2020

Nice film. did not expect the movie. Accidentally saw it at the box office. I love Nolan's work. I watched the film in one breath, intrigued the plot, pleased with the shooting, the music. but what can we say, we yearned for films in the cinema

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codedh

Sep 3, 2020

If you don't understand it doesn't mean the movie is bad! Nolan's Masterpiece!

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Jokohama

Dec 20, 2020

A fantastic idea, arranged into a logical story. It made you feel like all of this could really happen. Unfortunately, because of tight action flow, the characters do not show much emotion, and that made them less human.

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Usukhbayar

Sep 17, 2020

I love Nolan movies. But I think Tenet is far from his finest work. Because I'm so disappointed about confusing plot, bad sound mixing, lack of character development.

3 of 10 users found this helpful37

Tonyyy

Sep 6, 2020

Being ambitioned comes at the cost of that you might fail. In this case, I feel, Nolan has failed. While I like the general concept, it doesn't work for me. You could make a movie that's hard to follow along - if the pictures are nice, it can work. Or you could make a movie with poorBeing ambitioned comes at the cost of that you might fail. In this case, I feel, Nolan has failed. While I like the general concept, it doesn't work for me. You could make a movie that's hard to follow along - if the pictures are nice, it can work. Or you could make a movie with poor cinematography and a great story - but in my opinion this film has neither of those. It is hard to follow, full of tropes. Military, machine gun, special agent, helicopter, yacht, beautiful woman, guy doing chin ups near the oilrig (that's a new one I guess) plutonium, end of tze world, nuvlear thread - no, just no. We've seen these ingredients too many times, they're boring as hell. A movie has to be satisfying because you care about the characters, you can follow the story, you are curious about how it ends - this film doesn't check any of these boxes. Would rate it lower but I know that many modern movies are even worse, so 4/10… Expand

11 of 35 users found this helpful1124

JeanBon69

Jan 27, 2021

Very bad movie, does not make any sense at all... That's a waste of time..

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