Tenet Review

I’ll admit, Robert Pattinson was the reason I was drawn to see this movie, but I am glad the plot had me equally as interested for the two hours and thirty minutes it lasted. Well…maybe not the last thirty minutes.

In the movie Tenet (2020), Christopher Nolan created a storyline that was based on technology so futuristic and complex which made the plot original and like nothing I had seen before. However, maybe it was too complex for our minds to fully understand what the meaning of the movie was. The plot surrounded new weaponry which were bullets that moved back in time and moved through you which caused more pain than normal bullets.

The filming in itself must be appreciated since the actors had to act as though they were traveling back in time, so they had to fully do every action backwards… This created Nolan’s brilliant illusion of the characters moving back in time to figure out how these bullets work and how they could use them to predict the future.

The plot first focused on who created these bullets as they were an intelligent evil power that needed to be shut down. These scenes that were discussing the science of the bullets definitely took more brain power to focus on so you cold fully understand how they work. I still did not 100% get it but the idea was still very interesting to me. Eventually they involve a tragic story of woman who is attached to the man who is the mastermind behind the bullets which adds an emotional side to the movie. She is trapped in an abusive relationship with him but cannot break it because he threatens to take her son away from her if she leaves. This had me interested as I am a sucker for drama, and it added a personal feeling to the plot.

I understood almost everything up until this point, however the end of the movie had me asking questions in the theater at a loud volume. I was becoming frustrated and tired. I’m not sure if my brain capacity was full after two hours of trying to understand the science behind the bullets and how they were created, or if the plot was genuinely too complex. Nolan advanced the plot almost too much as it went from focusing on where these bullets came from, to sending the main character into a realm that travels backwards. This idea is very unique and original, but just a bit hard to follow.

At the end of it all it was revealed that some characters involved had been traveling backwards in time the whole duration of the film and this was the big shock at the end. There were just many symbols and scenes that I feel like were left unexplained and got lost in the film. I understand that the meaning of.

I appreciate Nolan’s experiment with the plot of this movie and the way that he challenged his actors and actresses. The idea for the plot and the cinematography were thrilling and new which made it worth. staying invested for that amount of time.However, I may suggest a shorter film time with less complex scenes or a movie for dummies that explains every scene outloud as it happens.