Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Tenet
2020
**½
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Martin Donovan, Aaron Taylor Johnson

An undercover agent is recruited to an organisation called Tenet. He learns that someone in the future has developed technology which allows its users to move backwards through time, and it could be used to destroy the world. With Inception and Interstellar, Christopher Nolan proved that he can transform complicated science fiction concepts into entertaining movies, but he fails miserably with this overegged spectacle. Almost every scene features a character who explains us what just happened, what is currently happening, or what is going to happen. These endless scenes of exposition provide information but are incredibly dull. Through all of this, it is still unclear what exactly is at stake and why we should care about these characters when we know nothing about them, in some cases not even their name. The action set pieces are nice but not spectacular enough to sit through them twice, first forwards and then backwards. An Academy Award winner for best visual effects.