"Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time."
An interesting reverse time based thriller movie unfolds, and this is my 2nd movie I have seen at the cinema for this pandemic year. It felt like forever since a blockbuster movie has been released, and all of the other promising ones have been pushed back towards the upcoming months, or next year.
Like many, I did not understand everything on the first watch, it's one of those movies. It's not just that a plot twist or two will happen, it's more so that the film logic of Tenet is deeply layered, similar to Inception(2010), although time is used abstractly in here, at first.
The Protagonist, the nameless main character, is played by an unknown actor for me, it goes without saying that John David Washington's career will be boosted by this film. Robert Pattinson plays along as support, while the rest of the cast, minus Michael Caine, is also unknown to me.
The score by Ludwig Göransson captures your attention and extends the movie's drama effectively, and some of the scenes, including the heavy dialogue and the action seems that feature the reverse time elements, can be heavy to digest all of it.
Apparently, a latin palindrome is playing out in Tenet, a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards. And some characters that appear, turn out to be someone else. And I am sure that there is more to be found.
Tenet is Christopher Nolan's latest, an action sci-fi which I won't rate highly right away, but it definitely has potential upon more watches.
We live in a twilight world.
Rating: 8.0
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