Tenet reviews Hail Nolan’s latest as an exciting spectacle despite cool, confusing

08/24/2020 World


Reviews have been flooded for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which was released on August 26 in many areas outside the US (and is due to air on September 3). Critics have praised the film, which currently has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, as an exciting, yet confusing, spy thriller, with our own review to support the project as “an exciting addition to the Nolan canon, but is held back a bit by a feeling of being too familiar. “

After more than a decade of ruminating on Tenet’s main themes and ideas, Nolan spent five years creating the script. Has the effort paid off, or is the finished project too much of a thinker to resonate with a massage?

Variety’s Guy Lodge describes Tenet as a “great, amazingly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable” movie. Although Tenet is not a “Holy Grail”, Lodge says “the sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is fascinating, as to compensate for the crazy loose ends and plagued paradoxes of his play – or perhaps just to emphasize that they are not “everything matters so much.”

Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Cain, and Kenneth Branagh in a time-consuming espionage adventure film that, while capturing most critics, leaves something cold. The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard says the flick is a “pandemic dud” and that she is not even sure “in five years’ time it would be worth the effort to catch telly.”

However, if critics agree on one thing, it is that Tenet’s plot is not the easiest to follow. Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent says that Tenet is Nolan’s most confusing film, but that it’s also a “rare action movie” where the characters do not just say that the world will end if they fall into their mission – you feel it too. “

Meanwhile, GameSpot called the film a “mind-melting stunner,” while THR said the film was “rich in shyness and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a particular humanity.”

The New York Times’ Jessica Kiang notes that the film was “undeniably sociable, but the refined grandiosity only serves the brilliance of her appointed brain.”

Both The Telegraph and Total Film both liked Tenet, exclaiming the film’s “heartbreaking greatness” and saying “just watching it alone will not be enough.”

Reich’s Alex Godfrey writes that Tenet “proves that Nolan has his unwavering commitment to large-scale tensions and games.”

Check out IGN’s Tenet review here …
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

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