Tenet - Movie Review

 

Tenant was written and directed by Christopher Nolan and it's here to hopefully save theaters around the world as they begin to reopen. I saw this at a press screening only five people were permitted in the theater. The theater was closed at the time everyone wore masks there was hand sanitizer all over the place. It was my first time going to a traditional theater since march when I saw bloodshot I’ve been to a drive-in this summer but this is the longest span of time that  I haven't been in a real theater. Since I was an infant it was very surreal to go see a movie like this on a big screen armed with only one word “Tenant” and fighting for the survival of the entire world. A protagonist journeys through a

twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. I just read the official plot synopsis on IMDB because it's the easiest way to summarize the plot of the film without spoilers. If I were to actually go into the plot of this movie right now it would take

the length of a normal review just to discuss that this is a very complex movie despite its attempts to explain itself to us at multiple times. The film is a little inaccessible at first for the first hour or so of the movie. You're sort of running to catch up to figure out what this world is? who our hero is? and what exactly his place in this world is it's about? Halfway through the movie that things become clearer. Nolan's, a big fan of mystery, he wants to have the audience ask a lot of questions he likes keeping things from you. As you watch the movie for a long time and he respects you in that way hoping that you go on that journey with him and he continues that with Tenant. Tenant is a film that a lot of people will love but perhaps a similar amount of people will not love. It's a very inaccessible movie, at times especially compared to Nolan's other films. Even films like inception where people came out saying I don't understand that movie I was confused by it I remember being like why it's very simple? It's very easy to

follow. Tenant is considerably more complex than inception and it really is going to take multiple viewings to truly appreciate the movie because there's so much that's hidden throughout the course of the movie and so much that that flies by very quickly. Very important insert shots for instance that happened very quickly early on in the scene that later in the movie really mean something for the characters. I respect a filmmaker who takes the amount of studio money that he does to make these audacious movies that make people scratch their heads. Tenant is not Nolan's best film by a long shot but I really liked it I really enjoyed watching this film. The spectacle is awe-inspiring visually. It's miraculous the things he's able to accomplish in camera with very little visual effects is

really impressive. People are moving forward in a scene while others in the scene are moving backwards. Sometimes people who are moving forward and moving backwards at the same time fight or are engaged in a highway chase with one another to watch that occur on the screen is fabulous. It's incredible to see this movie is visually stunning in every way. The highlights being that fight scene that I mentioned although it is not as remarkable as the hallway fight scene in Inception

as well as a building that seems to reassemble itself while also blowing up as the camera tilts upwards. Really incredible stuff with Tenant, Nolan continues his interest perhaps even obsession with time and the manipulation of it in the past. His films have often featured non-linear storylines. Here he takes this a step further by featuring objects and even people who are all moving in different directions and spaces of time within one frame. The film calls it inversion I won't go any further into it than that. We'll keep it non-spoiler you guys saw all of these images in the trailers anyway the acting is also strong. John David Washington is really good in the film as is Robert Pattinson Elizabeth Debicki is also very good in the film. All of the acting all around is very good Kenneth Branagh plays a villainous character and he's really big in the movie like he's really chewing the scenery. I think he's really good in the film Nolan's usual composer collaborator. Han Zimmer couldn't do this film because of his work on dune and so Ludwig Garrinson from Ryan Coogler's films like Black Panther and Creed replaced him and he's really good I've loved all of this man's scores. He won the Oscar For Black Panther I think he's one of our new best talents when it comes to music honestly. You could probably watch this and think Han Zimmer did it without knowing a  lot of the music does sound as if it has a reversed quality to it which matches obviously you know some of the spectacle on the screen.