Christopher Nolan is mostly known for his sci-fi-thrillers, which question the definition of time, such as "Inception", "Interstellar" and "Memento". In his newest film, he reinvents the genre and does something completely new.
"Tenet" is about a man, who discovers, that the present is getting attacked by the future, because objects and persons travelling backwards through time will destroy the world. We follow the story of an unnamed agent (John David Washington), who tries to stop the middleman, Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh). On his way, he discovers more and more about this hidden war, accompanied by Neil (Robert Pattinson).
While "Tenet" uses a new technology to invert entropy to travel backwards through time, an early film of Nolan, "Memento", was told just like that, backwards. Tenet shines in the background, mostly in the sequences, where the protagonist travels backwards and everything around him moves forward. Those effects were PERFECT. Another great thing is the choreographies. At some point inverted people fight with non-inverted people, but it's all without CGI. These fights were handmade, which looks way more convincing, than some CGI-action-movie.
I have to admit, that you have to watch it more than once, because every time you realize something new, which is in my opinion a great way, to keep audiences interested, because "Tenet" has soo many mysteries, that we want to be solved. Who is the protagonist? Who is Neil? Who is anybody?
There is one thing, I didnt like: We dont get a pause. The plot goes on and on, action sequence after action sequence, never time to breath or think about what happened. Some people might get frustrated by this.
So, 9/10, because Nolan is one of few directors, who can just make anything a masterpiece and a well-thought movie, while still being thrilling, exciting and innovational.
"Tenet" is about a man, who discovers, that the present is getting attacked by the future, because objects and persons travelling backwards through time will destroy the world. We follow the story of an unnamed agent (John David Washington), who tries to stop the middleman, Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh). On his way, he discovers more and more about this hidden war, accompanied by Neil (Robert Pattinson).
While "Tenet" uses a new technology to invert entropy to travel backwards through time, an early film of Nolan, "Memento", was told just like that, backwards. Tenet shines in the background, mostly in the sequences, where the protagonist travels backwards and everything around him moves forward. Those effects were PERFECT. Another great thing is the choreographies. At some point inverted people fight with non-inverted people, but it's all without CGI. These fights were handmade, which looks way more convincing, than some CGI-action-movie.
I have to admit, that you have to watch it more than once, because every time you realize something new, which is in my opinion a great way, to keep audiences interested, because "Tenet" has soo many mysteries, that we want to be solved. Who is the protagonist? Who is Neil? Who is anybody?
There is one thing, I didnt like: We dont get a pause. The plot goes on and on, action sequence after action sequence, never time to breath or think about what happened. Some people might get frustrated by this.
So, 9/10, because Nolan is one of few directors, who can just make anything a masterpiece and a well-thought movie, while still being thrilling, exciting and innovational.