Tenet is a science-fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Dimple Kapadia, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, and Aaron Taylor Johnson in the lead roles. It was released on 3rd September 2020 in the United States and is scheduled to release on 4th December 2020 in India.
The film starts with showing our unnamed protagonist (John David Washington) a CIA agent, who is in an undercover operation looking for a device in an opera house in Kyiv but his team is attacked by Russians, despite being saved by a mysterious guy, and is held captive but he tries to kill himself to consuming a suicide cyanide pill. Next scene, he wakes up in a hospital and gets to know that the pill was just a test of his loyalty. He is now given a task to work in a secret organization Tenet. A scientist shows him what he might encounter bizarre in his mission, by telling him about the time inversion theory and the inverted entropy of the bullets which he catches rather than fires. To know more about the bullets, he reaches Mumbai, where he meets his partner Niel (Robert Pattinson) and traces the bullet to an arms dealer Priya (Dimple Kapadia), who also works for Tenet. She further tells him it was normal bullets and guns when they purchased but it was inverted by Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh).
The protagonist meets Kat (Elizabeth Debicki), the unhappy wife of Andrei, who is forced to live with Andrei as she sold a forged art to him. Our hero plans to steal the drawing from the Freeport of Oslo, where Niel and Our Hero is attacked by two masked men who got away by going inside a turnstile machine, which could invert the entropy of anything. Kat introduces our hero to the villain, Andrei, and he said that he'll help Andrei to get the Plutonium-241. In short, Andrei is looking for the nine cases of those nuclear materials, which when combined in an algorithm, will change the entropy of the Earth, causing mass destruction and extinction. That's the crux of the story which I hope I got it right.
Christopher Nolan has also written the story which is spectacular in every sense. The film waste, not even a single second, and you are in the Opera House of Kiev, with so much going on, it's even a crime to blink. Our Hero has been not given any name, and I thought maybe it's there somewhere in the film, like a hint or something. Yeah, that's what I thought because it's Nolan's movie, nothing is simple.
If you've seen Nolan's earlier films, then you should know that his playing with time and space, is like walking in a cake for him. This film reminds you of Memento, Inception, Interstellar but trusts me it's more complicated. Here you get to know "time travel" in a new way, in a reversed style, which has been incredibly executed which delivers some of the jaw-dropping sequences, no matter how many times it comes.
The film is like a race like someone has said Go, and then starts the 150 minutes of an unforgettable experience that is very hard to dislike. The films one after another offers adrenaline rush moments, keeping you engaged and absorbed in their new bizarre world and the quiet and calm moments provide a break from the rush that you saw and the one that is yet to come.
It will be wrong to complain about any emotional feelings getting attached to any characters, as it never happens, not even with Kat, nor that I was expecting something like this. The film has that same old 'saving the world' plot, but as said it never follows the path you have seen many times. Therefore the film is very new and raw and very enthralling to watch.
John David Washington is in a great form as the protagonist, he's terrific in action scenes which are again a treat, as the moves are reversed like time and John has performed that effortlessly and his hard work is evident in every scene. Robert Pattinson is the scene-stealer as Niel and is a delight to watch and his scenes with John David Washington are the solid ones from the film (the whole film is solid). Dimple Kapadia as Priya is very impressive and it was really a proud feeling to see an Indian Actress in a world-class magnum opus film. She always impresses with her acting be it any kind of role. Elizabeth Debicki has also done a good job as Kat, even though her emotional angle feels contrived, but she impresses with her acting as the film progresses. Kenneth Branagh as Andrei Sator is worst than any supervillain, who tracks you from the past and future, and knows about your every move. He has given an outstanding performance but not chilly as a villain should have.
The film is amazingly picturized. The cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema did a brilliant job as the film looks visually stunning. From the opera house sequence, you would have got that its camera work is truly spectacular. From the plane crashing to the climactic war scene, everything is perfectly captured and the impact of the sequences is lifted by the powerful background music, which makes sure (Nolan too) that you stick to the film. The production design by Nathan Crowley is just mind-blowing and of a very big scale and the flawless visual effects which are breathtaking and simply extraordinary.
Tenet takes you on an engrossing ride, which never fails to entertain or to shock you with its unexpected twists and turns. Nolan is known to shoot his films with IMAX lens and cameras, and this film is precisely made for the bigger screen, which offers many breathtaking visuals and adrenaline-charged sequences. The film is definitely worth your time and money, and stay safe and take precautions if you going to theaters. The film needs full attention from its viewers not like one of the scientists says in this film "Don't try to understand it, feel it". You have to grasp what's happening in every frame as it doesn't derail from its story, not even a single time in its 150 minutes duration, and has a lot going on. The film releases on 4th December 2020 in Indian Theaters and on Blu-ray on 15th December 2020. Enjoy!
Rating:- 4.5/5
Now in Theaters and on Blu-ray on 15th December 2020.
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