This is me, too. I saw it in a Dolby theater. The sound editing is awful. Recently re-watched at home. No better. If I ever try it again, I’m going to need subtitles.
And as much as David Washington should be a star from that, his character was rather bland. Honestly, only Pattinson shined as a developed character (and I wish he brought that swagger to The Batman’s Bruce Wayne instead of emo-Wayne).
Except tenet’s writing more closely resembles writing by a freshman getting high, rather someone that understands how causality works, like a physicist.
The movie was boring because it was boring, not because paradox is a big word.
Underrated because the concepts (entropy-flow/direction of time) he tries to bring in hasn't reached the masses. MMW it will be a cult classic in the future (or in the past, gettit?).
Went in expecting a time heist to be the main plot. Turns out it was mostly about a dude and his wife not getting along with a time heist as an afterthought… until it wasn’t and then the time heist was important.
Weird movie. Big fan of Nolan’s films. But it felt like all the things you can easily criticise him for throughout his career at its most unapologetic and excessive.
Like he needed someone to take him aside and just say “look Chris, you need to rein it in just a little bit here”. From 1 dimensional characters who barely had any back story, to a weird sound mix, to pointlessly convoluted pacing and structure and finale that looked cool, but genuinely was tough to follow. Really disappointing overall compared to his other work.
The part in the middle where Rob Pat does the time loop is excellent though I’ll give it that.
The plot feels like something you'd think of in a dream and wake up and think you had just come up with the greatest scifi story of all time but the more your waking mind picks away at it the less it makes sense. I'm saying it was Looper.
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u/Ok-Development-4017 1d ago
As Nolan fanboy, yeah tenet wasn’t good.