
Tenet 2 ½ stars
From the director of Inception and Dunkirk comes a truly mind bending work called Tenet that arrived in theaters last summer in the middle of the pandemic. Christopher Nolan has created an espionage spy thriller featuring time travel with a twist. John David Washington, known for BlacKKKlansman, is simply called Protagonist and is a sort of special agent who must save the world from a weapon sent from the future that is intended to destroy the world. The premise of the weapon, inverted matter that moves backwards through time while interacting with our world is much too involved to try to explain so I won’t even try. In fact one has a hard time comprehending what is going on through much of the movie as people can alternately move forward and backwards. That’s what is wrong with the movie since the more you think about it the less it seems to make sense. This is even implied by some of the lines of Robert Pattinson who plays Neil, a team member of the Protagonist. The film is beautifully shot in many parts of the world which gives it a look of a 007 movie with just as much action. The score is interesting, but I wouldn’t call it exactly musical. Tenet is nominated for Best Production Design and for Best Visual Effects in the upcoming Academy Awards. I found Nolan’s earlier works to be more entertaining than this film.