Tenet

 

Tenet 2020

• Director: Christopher Nolan
• Seen by this director: Dunkirk, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Insomnia
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Clémence Poésy, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
• Robert Pattinson – High Life, Queen of the Desert, Twilight, Remember Me, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Clémence Poésy – The Hollow Crown, Harry Potter, 127 Hours, In Bruges
• Michael Caine - Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Harry Brown, Flawless, The Prestige, Children of Men, The Weatherman, Last Orders, Get Carter, The Cider House Rules, Little Voice, Mona Lisa, Educating Rita, Sleuth (both versions), Alfie
• Elizabeth Dibecki – The Night Watchman, Macbeth, The Great Gatsby
• Kenneth Branagh – All Is True, Murder on the Orient Express, Dunkirk, My Week with Marilyn, Warm Springs, Wild Wild West, Frankenstein, Henry V, Valkyrie, Wallander, Swing Kids, The Boat That Rocked, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rabbit Proof Fence, Shackleton, How to Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Fortunes of War
• Why? Good cast and director
• Seen: 30 July 2021.      

       The Protagonist (Washington) and his sort of partner Neil (Pattinson) are caught up in international espionage that turns out to be a sort of time travel thing – the threat is from the future.

       It’s confusing but I expected that, so I let the film flow through me. It makes Mission Impossible and James Bond look like simple kids’ films.

       Potentially interesting, with Branagh doing well as the villain, it is, though exciting once in a while, kind of boring. I keep waiting for it to come to the point, but there doesn’t seem to be one.

       What a disappointment. 

2 * of 5