LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
TENET (8.5/10) is completely insane and by no means should it work but surprisingly, I really liked it. The ballsiest big swing I've seen from a major studio in some time. A few of the most impressive action set pieces of Nolan's career cobbled together by a waterfall of, admittedly, over-complicated exposition. The opening scene could have been an alternate Bane introduction in Dark Knight Rises. I was immediately hooked and willing to go wherever Nolan's psychosis wanted to take me. Tenet dives off the deep end into its pseudo-intellectual level understanding of quantum physics early and explanations are rapid fire, so it's not the easiest movie to follow until you get into the swing of things. I did not have trouble with the audio mix that people have mentioned but I did download a massive file and had my TV turned up very loud so I caught most if not all of the dialogue.
I'm going to shock the hell out of you guys: I thought Robert Pattinson was phenomenal in what was the best character in the movie. A bit of a drunken Bond, he has so much more to work with than John David Washington who is smooth but there isn't much going on with his character. Elizabeth Debicki is also really good but I was perplexed by her arc's importance to the overall story. You know who wasn't good? Shakespearean ace actor and multiple Oscar nominee Sir Kenneth Branagh. Somebody get the net for this fuckin guy. Outrageously bad performance.
Look, Tenet isn't the most well written movie. One could say it's a nonsensical mess and nobody could disagree. It's at times convoluted and gluttonously over-the-top; ie a Christopher Nolan movie. Tenet worked for me in ways Inception never did. Tenet is much more imaginative with the rule-set he creates and he plays with some of the implications of those rules a bit in interesting ways.
Big dumb stupid fun with quantum mechanics.
I'm going to shock the hell out of you guys: I thought Robert Pattinson was phenomenal in what was the best character in the movie. A bit of a drunken Bond, he has so much more to work with than John David Washington who is smooth but there isn't much going on with his character. Elizabeth Debicki is also really good but I was perplexed by her arc's importance to the overall story. You know who wasn't good? Shakespearean ace actor and multiple Oscar nominee Sir Kenneth Branagh. Somebody get the net for this fuckin guy. Outrageously bad performance.
Look, Tenet isn't the most well written movie. One could say it's a nonsensical mess and nobody could disagree. It's at times convoluted and gluttonously over-the-top; ie a Christopher Nolan movie. Tenet worked for me in ways Inception never did. Tenet is much more imaginative with the rule-set he creates and he plays with some of the implications of those rules a bit in interesting ways.
Big dumb stupid fun with quantum mechanics.
