Tenet

2020 Directed by Christopher Nolan

Time runs out.

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

John David Washington Robert Pattinson Elizabeth Debicki Kenneth Branagh Dimple Kapadia Himesh Patel Aaron Taylor-Johnson Michael Caine Clémence Poésy Martin Donovan Andrew Howard Yuri Kolokolnikov Mark Krenik Anthony Molinari Rich Ceraulo Ko Denzil Smith Jonathan Camp Julia-Maria Arnolds Laurie Shepherd Wes Chatham Fiona Dourif Kenneth Wolf Andersen Haugen Marcel Sabat Marek Angelstok Klaus Peeter Rüütli Daniel Olesk Bern Collaço Ingrid Margus Carina Velva Show All…

Alternative Titles

时空追捕, 天能, 테넷, İnanç

science fiction action thriller

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Review by Erin ★★½ 83

hello my name is christopher nolan, welcome to masterclass
today I will be discussing how I add emotional depth to my characters
first I add woman
then i add child

and we're done!
thank you for watching
Review by COBRARocky ★ 85

Half the dialogue is exposition. The soundtrack goes BRRRRM. You will forget the entire thing on the drive home. A film by Christopher Nolan.
Review by brat pitt ★★½ 86

we drove 2 hours from LA to san diego just to see Tenet! At The Drive-In then spent about 75% of the trip home complaining about basically every aspect.
it’s a puzzle box with no reward or sense of satisfaction. i enjoy being challenged by complex films when they proffer some sort of emotional truth, but Tenet is all logos and no pathos — the only time any character exhibited any remotely mortal quality was when robert pattinson got sleepy and laid down. cool how elizabeth debicki’s only there to be 6’3” and relentlessly abused. oh, and to be a mom! in Nolan World, girls have to either be moms or dead. good thing we live in a Twilight World!
Review by Lucy ★★½ 73

popped into the theater during various scenes while at work tonight and realized i’m done having fun with this: what good is a complex plot if it’s too hard to hear or understand, and why hire an actor as good as elizabeth debicki just to be used as a human punching bag? i love plenty of nolan’s other films, but someone as monumental as him doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore when it comes to something as simple as basic characterization. he can create layered stories about space, time, and even dreams, but can’t move past something as old as the damsel in distress trope? grow up
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 56

easily Nolan's worst non-Batman movie since Insomnia or Following.
i loved it.
p.s. for my fellow Americans: you can privately rent out a Cinemark in certain places for a LOT less than you think and see this or whatever you want with some peace of mind.
Review by vince ★★★ 39

someone tell christopher nolan that time will not sleep with him, no matter how many movies he makes on it.
also, i really hope whoever goes to see this movie has super hearing, because it is impossible to understand the dialogue for about 70% of this movie over that damn soundtrack.
Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★ 48

We rented a truck and drove to San Diego to see Tenet at the South Bay Drive-In, and I had a lovely time. Went to the beach, saw a beautiful sunset, made a silly video, and spent a good 90 minutes or so laughing about this big, dumb film. Nonsense movie. Absolutely unintelligible and confusing, but somehow still very predictable and rote. A miracle. He spent so much time figuring out the logistics of the central time mechanics that he spent absolutely no time on the dialogue or plot and decided to just have his characters try and explain what’s happening with every line– and I still don’t fully get what was happening for a bunch of the scenes.
I…
Review by deah ★½

nolan so scared to flop he designed a movie you have to watch twice
Review by iana ★★★ 32

the first half was the most confusing shit ever and the time stuff hadn’t even kicked in yet they were just talking and talking and i couldn’t process a word they were saying i’m so stupid
CINEMAS THO!!! I’VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH BB
Review by ty ★★★½ 21

I know I should be talking about the movie in general but let me just say how much I appreciated how hot this movie was. 6’3 Elizabeth Debicki, John, Robert and Aaron? Hot. The cinematography? Hot. The score? Hot. The set pieces? Hot. It’s just hot. Tenet is hot. It’s sexy. I’m thinking...
Review by Lucy 24

“don’t try to understand it”
very few filmmakers in the world have as much creative control as christopher nolan does on this scale, and when this ended that became abundantly clear. the reason being because this final edit is so incoherent that not only does it take research afterwards to fully figure out, but the sound mixing drowns out most of the dialogue completely. not that the dialogue is very helpful to begin with, it only added to the confusion for me in most scenes where i could even make out the words. after some reflection i think i like and kind of understand the plot, but i think the way he wrote the script (especially the dialogue) was ridiculously…
Review by Tyler ★ 102

Nolan’s worst movie. An absolutely insufferable, entirely incoherent stream of trite exposition and indolent writing with absolutely no emotional core nor even the most remote understanding of tone or storytelling structure.
This is a film that rambles from setpiece to setpiece at barely decipherable speed, every so often winking indulgently at the viewer as if to say “if you’re not following this, the joke’s on you”, only to then trip over itself to explain ad nauseum what Nolan, for all his love of spectacle, barely attempts to convey cinematically. The editing is some of the worst in a major blockbuster for years, frequently foregoing logic entirely in the vague hope the viewer will get caught up in its simultaneous “forwards/inverted…

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Review by Nada SJ ★★★★½

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Review by Jake Disch ★★★★

Utterly preposterous. I only understood half of it. It plays in the same sandbox as INCEPTION but without the solid coherent logic. None of that stops it from being a consistently entertaining action blockbuster with tons of unique ideas and a great cast, tho
Review by Pransmathur ★★★★

It was visually stunning. People are going backwards, and then forwards, and then they’re going both at the same time. I’m sure the movie was narratively coherent. Mr. Nolan is the smartest human of all time so I’m sure the movie actually makes sense. I’m just kind of a dumb boy:( First viewing, you won’t understand some things so I think repeat viewings are a must. But overall, this movie was so fun to watch, and Ludwig’s score makes it even better!
Review by CharlesGarbo ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

No es perfecta, el drama está soso y cursi, los diálogos sólo confunden más...pero es lo madre, pocas veces disfruto una película de balazos estúpidos...disfrute que cambiarán el plot de rusos malos contra gringos heroicos; por rusos (probablemente) malos PERO DEL FUTURO contra Washington y Pattinsonbb. Awebo parece que lo del viaje intertemporal es una tesis de un wey que te insiste está en su maestría de física y es bien mamador. No creo que el tema confunda, se entiende que quieren invertir el tiempo para tener agua y suministros naturales que se extinguieron....lo confuso y cabron es la coreografía, ahí sí se mamaron. El tema de rescatar los suministros naturales es poderoso pero sólo aparece en un diálogo a lo último y para esta instancia ya se nos fundió el cerebro. Igual amigos, no se la pierdan y veanla con subtitulos porque dicen que el sonido está culero (yo ni en cuenta porque andaba leyendo bien agustin lara).
Review by Armando ★★★

Un villano que quiere acabar con el mundo, el cual es defendido por dos audaces hombres. A grandes rasgos de eso trata Tenet, pero con muchos enredos de tiempo.
Review by Shardon ★★★★

second viewing helped in regards to following the plot... saw in AVX and i think i just developed an even fatter crush on robert pattinson
Review by Carson Grane

chris nolan: *uses red and blue to show different directions of time*
kids who brought the wrong 3-D glasses: holy shit
Review by Ryan ★★★½

Hmm...
Review by Jeff ★★★★

Nolan’s newest feature combines a lot of things I’ve come to enjoy about his movies: well-choreographed action sequences, awe-inspiring special effects, an all-star cast, and (most uniquely to the director) an inventive temporal manipulation of plot. I’ve heard this movie described as “James Bond on acid,” which is pretty accurate: lots of international espionage in the context of an altered human relationship to the linear, chronologic world. As a screenwriter, Nolan has a keen grasp on how plot and film is perceived and understood by his audience, and his films thrive when he can manipulate that perception to the point of introducing a new kind of storytelling. That being said, TENET may not be as revolutionary as some of his…
Review by peppermintc ★★★★★

this is the 3rd attempt. this time I focused on the interactions between characters and their lines. I can concentrate more now and notice something in details. All the doors were opened by Neil. He tried so hard to not to seem over-excited by ordering him drinks at their first meeting in Dubai. On Kat's character, Elizabeth Debicki really gave out her emotional performance at the revenge scenes. Hope to see more of her works in the future.
Review by spencerax ★★★★

I went to see it two times. The Covid theater experience is for sure interesting. First time I couldn’t hear ANY dialogue (seriously, it is def hard to hear in this movie, especially if the room is echoey) but I really liked the premise and the unique action sequences that stemmed from it. The second time I caught a LOT more. Me and my friend were the only 2 people at the showing, and this theater had clearer sound. I was able to catch the pieces of the plot that I had missed, and also catch a lot of the cool little things Nolan added.
The fact that I had to watch twice to even understand the basic plot is probably not the sign of perfect movie, but I def enjoyed it a lot both times. If you usually put on subtitles on at home then you really might have trouble with this one sorry homies
Review by angryteen ★★★½

So I watch this and I feel like an awful person for going out and suportting this movie in this times, but going back to the film it is good, in my opinion this is the best and the worst of Nolan, the dialogue is pretty bad because it is all exposition andsome of it is just so unescessarily complex, Pattinson is really good in this and he is clearly having a great time the rest of the cast is fine, the first half feels like the rise of the skywalker like o I have to do this to get to this people to help me to so this for this, it geels really disjointed, people are comparing this with…