Tenet (2020)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.20:1 150m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
A secret service agent is caught up in a covert operation to prevent a Russian arms dealer from procuring all the components of a time-travel technology that will permit him to destroy the world by reversing time.
Review:
Right from its deafening and disorienting opening sequence of an infiltrated terrorist attack on a concert hall (curiously dubbed an 'opera house'), Nolan's gimmicky thriller disappointingly allows its tail to wag the dog, in the mistaken assumption that dizzying surface technique, loud music and inaudible dialogue will lull us into the belief that his new jigsaw puzzle fits together as well as his last. Unhappily, this elaboration on temporal themes from Memento and Interstellar and the spatial-temporal distortions of Inception is a cute idea with a charmless lead and storytelling that loses its audience after half an hour, then goes on for another two.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.20:1 150m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
A secret service agent is caught up in a covert operation to prevent a Russian arms dealer from procuring all the components of a time-travel technology that will permit him to destroy the world by reversing time.
Review:
Right from its deafening and disorienting opening sequence of an infiltrated terrorist attack on a concert hall (curiously dubbed an 'opera house'), Nolan's gimmicky thriller disappointingly allows its tail to wag the dog, in the mistaken assumption that dizzying surface technique, loud music and inaudible dialogue will lull us into the belief that his new jigsaw puzzle fits together as well as his last. Unhappily, this elaboration on temporal themes from Memento and Interstellar and the spatial-temporal distortions of Inception is a cute idea with a charmless lead and storytelling that loses its audience after half an hour, then goes on for another two.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.20:1 150m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
A secret service agent is caught up in a covert operation to prevent a Russian arms dealer from procuring all the components of a time-travel technology that will permit him to destroy the world by reversing time.
Review:
Right from its deafening and disorienting opening sequence of an infiltrated terrorist attack on a concert hall (curiously dubbed an 'opera house'), Nolan's gimmicky thriller disappointingly allows its tail to wag the dog, in the mistaken assumption that dizzying surface technique, loud music and inaudible dialogue will lull us into the belief that his new jigsaw puzzle fits together as well as his last. Unhappily, this elaboration on temporal themes from Memento and Interstellar and the spatial-temporal distortions of Inception is a cute idea with a charmless lead and storytelling that loses its audience after half an hour, then goes on for another two.