Tenet (2020)

 

Tenet (2020)

There are tons of reviews floating on the web on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. Most of which I found to be

polarizing and divides people into two camps- people who think it’s the director’s best film ever and people who think it’s the director’s worst film ever. Given that, even Christopher Nolan’s worst film is far better than most of the junk out there passing for a movie.

 

Personally, I think if you go into this with the right mindset, you will find this sci-fi thriller espionage action flick pretty mind-bogglingly fantastic.  While the physics in this movie isn’t quite right, remind yourself it’s a sci-fi movie. Unlike other time travel movies based on a fixed and predestined loop (i.e., The Terminator), Tenet uses time inversion erstwhile you age forward in real-time, the world reverses direction around you until you get back to your return point. Objects can also be time inverted so that they travel to the past.  Some critics claim Nolan offers gimmicks and nothing substantial and thought-provoking to this genre (i.e., Interstellar). While I might agree to some degree, I still found the movie an enjoyable action sci-fi spy-fi movie on the surface and a palindromic brainbuster on the second or third viewing.

 

If you are nerd enough and love fiction of the scientific genre, and looking for a fun film to watch, dissect, and simply enjoy, then don’t miss Tenet.