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Tenet is absolutely everything I wanted and needed and clearly a big welcome back to the movies.
Full reviewBlacKkKlansman's John David Washington and Robert Pattinson lead Oscar veteran Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller as espionage agents caught in a temporal conflict that could lead to catastrophe. Co-stars Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), with screen greats Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk) and Michael Caine (The Dark Knight) reteaming with Nolan.
An exceptional agent (Washington), only known as The Protagonist, is recruited for the coldest of cold wars - one involving unique radiation that allows matter to travel backwards in time. Paired with a veteran (Pattinson) in the field, their search leads them to a scorned woman (Debicki) willing to help take down the maniacal war kingpin (Branagh) who's taken advantage of this secret substance. However, when a time-inverting device becomes weaponised, The Protagonist is forced to see the world on a whole new level.
LessTenet is absolutely everything I wanted and needed and clearly a big welcome back to the movies.
Full reviewTenet is self-indulgent and wildly in love with its own cleverness. While parts of it work extremely well, it just doesn't add up to a satisfying narrative.
Full reviewBy the time it's done, you might not know what the hell's gone on, but it is exciting nevertheless. It is ferociously entertaining.
Full reviewA concrete cornucopia of global chaos and threat, in which humanity's survival depends on the minor matter of reshaping time and space, "Tenet" looks well suited to an anxious age.
Full reviewThe stakes have never been higher, but Tenet is exactly the film cinemas need right now.
Full reviewThe world is more than ready for a fabulous blockbuster... It's a real shame Tenet isn't it.
Full reviewNolan's latest may well be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, or it may signify something imponderably resonant, and signify it forward, backward and inside out. Does your head hurt yet?
Full reviewIt's a dream ride... for the most part, for anyone looking for glitzy escapism, and who wouldn't include themselves in that demographic right now.
Full reviewSeek it out, if only to marvel at the entertainingly inane glory of what we once had and are in danger of never having again.
Full reviewAltogether, it makes for a chilly, cerebral film - easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity.
Full reviewIf Nolan has out-Nolaned himself, it's in the action set-pieces which, despite being of head-scrambling technical intricacy, are sharper than Occam's razor and carried off with astonishing economy.
Full reviewNo doubt avid students of the Nolan formula will get months of entertainment out of repeated viewings, but for me it was oddly tantalizing -- full of good things but ultimately frustrating.
Full reviewAfter five months stuck in front of the small screen, maybe being a little overwhelmed is no bad thing. But it's hard to escape the sense that less might have been more.
Full reviewTenet is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon and Neon Rentals.
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