Christopher Nolan's repeatedly-delayed sci-fi action thriller finally hits screens, and it's every bit as ambitious as any fan of the filmmaker could've hoped.
Indeed, Nolan is pretty much the only writer/director working today with the power to put together an cinematic undertaking of this magnitude that isn't tied to any existing intellectual property. For those reasons alone, Tenet should be celebrated. But it's also an utterly amazing film in its own right.
Yes, it's often confusing. And consistently bewildering. But for me, the threads came together beautifully in the final third in a manner that more than made up for all the times I had been lost throughout.
John David Washington (BlacKKKlansman) stars as a CIA agent recruited to combat a grave threat involving the concept of "inversion": objects (and people) with reversed chronology which are travelling backwards through time. Alongside a permanently wind-swept Robert Pattinson, wild heists and dazzling assaults are executed amidst a non-linear framework that allows for some truly insane action set-pieces.