Tenet

I won’t lie I was skeptical going in purely because of all of the talk this film had when it came out and still has today and now that I’ve seen it, I completely get it  because this thing is confusing as hell. Time travel on its own is already a mind bender but give it to Nolan and this is what you get, something that comes across as ambitious but ultimately lacks any point whatsoever other than to give you a lots of amazing moments full of spectacle. That sounds incredibly harsh but I found this film so frustrating on so many levels, yes it’s a cool idea but beyond that there isn’t really anything worth exploring. I think this might be Nolan’s worst script tbh, every line feels like exposition and like it’s trying to explain itself away but never actually ends up achieving it. The characters aren’t characters, they’re more like hollow devices to get the film in motion and the plot itself is so demanding of a rewatch that it’s almost impossible to even get a grasp on it the first time around. It has entertaining sequences, sure. The hand to hand combat and overall action is very exciting and really cool to see how they achieved certain things but that’s it. It’s just mind bending action for the sake of being mind bending action other than giving us some great visuals, it really hasn’t got anything to offer. I respect the ambition, I really do but this film highlights pretty much every complaint I’ve had with his films up until this point. It’s nowhere close to being considered “bad” Nolan is too good of a filmmaker for that but he got lost in the sauce here, big time. Maybe I’m just a idiot who didn’t get it, but this just wasn’t it imo