They’re good; they have to be. New Tenet trailer may have revealed the movie's huge time travel twist A few key lines from the new trailer, combined with quotes from its star, could reveal the plot of Christopher Nolan's new movie. Also thrown into the mix is Sator’s wife, Kat, played by the statuesque Elizabeth Debicki. “Look at all this wacko stuff I’m doing!” you can almost hear him cry (albeit in a more proper way, with that accent and all). This sets the stage for all sorts of time-fuckery, with Nolan blowing up a building both forwards and backwards – it’s a visual trick that again had me wondering: “How the hell did he do that?”, assuming it wasn’t all CGI – which it doesn’t appear to be. Andrei Sator’s surname comes from the Sator Square, a five-by-five grid of interlocking letters that reads the same in every direction. The spark he’s supposed to have with Sator’s estranged wife, Kat (Elizabeth Debecki) isn’t there, which makes for a motivation problem. And, without fail, Michael Caine has to show up. One character will appear to be moving in reverse while the other moves at a normal pace, and to achieve this clearly required incredibly planning – and blocking – on Nolan’s part. Pattinson is never less than watchable. Just as the performance is about to commence, Ukrainian gunmen storm the place, shooting the conductor and terrorizing the orchestra and patrons. Divorced from thoughtful characters or any thematic heft, Tenet is merely an exercise in palindromic storytelling. You’ll be on the edge of your seat; you’ll be biting your fingernails; you’ll be wishing everything else in the damn movie had been as effective. But he still just seems like some bloke who’s got drunk in Banana Republic’s scarf department. But then they notice a dead body on the other side of the gate, with a familiar red string hanging from its backpack. Spoiler alert! Here are some answers to what the hell happened. The movie skirts around this paradox by literally pointing it out, bringing up the fabled “Grandfather Paradox” – if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, wouldn’t you be killing yourself? No wonder Christopher Nolan thinks Tenet can save cinema. In his last film, Dunkirk, Nolan also largely discarded with characters and complex storytelling, but it worked because he was telling us about true events and using this stripped-down narrative to create a work of experiential filmmaking. Whiz-bang prologues are another Nolan staple, and sure enough, Tenet launches with a bang, throwing is into an operation involving a CIA team infiltrating an opera house. The movie’s protagonist—identified only as the Protagonist (I know)—is a CIA operative, played by John David Washington, recruited by a highly secretive organization called Tenet, whose purpose is to prevent the end of the world. Nolan seems to be in the spy genre for the action, which is fine, but it also renders Tenet into no better than a Michael Bay movie but in a three-piece suit instead of a t-shirt and jeans. Oh yeah. And, sure, that can be a great sentiment. But at this point in his career, shouldn’t Nolan be progressing rather than regressing? “But, uh, maybe not.”, Remember: “Don’t try to understand it, feel it.”. The sentiment running through Tenet is that you’re seeing Nolan’s riff on a Bond movie, with all the shortcomings that implies. He awakens on a hospital ship with mysterious superiors informing him that his willingness to die for discretion makes him the ideal operative (now officially dubbed The Protagonist) for a mission to bring down arms dealer Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh) by ingratiating himself with Sator’s estranged wife Kat (Elizabeth Debicki). To say so is sad, perhaps heretical. So it would make sense if Neil told her what she really needed to do and left the Protagonist, and the audience, out of the loop, especially if he had an added reason to trust her. Probably not? In a temporal pincer, you attack from both directions in time. But Tenet is far from his finest work, Fri 21 Aug 2020 12.00 EDT The second team then reverses direction and proceeds backward from the end, armed with the knowledge of what’s already happened. To spell it out would be a spoiler, but think 9/11 times a hundred, to quote Team America: World Police, a film Tenet faintly resembles. ‘Tenet’ Spoiler Review: Christopher Nolan Creates Stunning Action in a Frustrating, Muddled Movie, ‘Rebecca’ Review: Ben Wheatley’s Slick Update on the Gothic Romance Fails to Thrill, ‘The War with Grandpa’ Dethrones ‘Tenet’ in the Continually Depressing Weekend Box Office, ‘Tenet’ Box Office Hits $300 Million Internationally, Needs a Couple Hundred Million More to Break Even, ‘Welcome to the Blumhouse’ Review: ‘Black Box’ and ‘The Lie’ Both Play With Perception and Deception – With Mixed Results. Not so here – we can see everything that’s happening, and more often than not, I found myself perking up and wondering, “How the hell did he do that?” There’s a car chase sequence, complete with an inverted car that flips back onto its tires, that is one of the coolest things you’ll see on screen this year. ‘Tenet’ Spoiler Review: Christopher Nolan Creates Stunning Action in a Frustrating, Muddled Movie Posted on Friday, September 4th, 2020 by Chris Evangelista Note: I saw Tenet … What Is the Bougiest Status Symbol in Sofia Coppola’s New Movie? Knowing that they’re about to be trapped underground when the explosion is triggered, Neil lowers a rope to the Protagonist and Ives, and pulls them out just in the nick of time. I wouldn’t advise you to go see it in a theater, but I can’t order you not to. It turns out he’s dying – of pancreatic cancer. Tenet wastes no time (and time is a big part of the movie – despite the official synopsis flat-out saying that the film does not involve time travel, it’s very much about time travel). (And I see what you did there.) and after ten films, he obviously has a grasp on his craft. Adding to all the excitement is Ludwig Göransson‘s score, which is propulsive and often strange, employing weird breathing sounds and screeching guitars. With all of those criteria in place, we can firmly say that, yes, Tenet is one of the most Christopher Nolan-y movies in the history of Christopher Nolan movies.
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