I had to watch the movie again with subtitles to understand (mostly of it).

Protagonist acting is horrible. Typical affirmative action hire with their sleepy eyes. Nolan made the story so complex maybe with the intention of having to watch it twice at the cinema ($$$)?

We get a plot-twist in the end but not much information about it. The idea of Neil being Max sounds nice but no hints in the movie. Maybe Neil could say something like “you were a father figure” or “I know you since I was a kid”... but Nolan wants to make it so complex and open to interpretation so that he can take credit in the future for the one he likes the most.

Nolan did many of my favorite movies but I won’t create a lot of expectation for his next movies.

@therapist said:

I had to watch the movie again with subtitles to understand (mostly of it).

Protagonist acting is horrible. Typical affirmative action hire with their sleepy eyes. Nolan made the story so complex maybe with the intention of having to watch it twice at the cinema ($$$)?

We get a plot-twist in the end but not much information about it. The idea of Neil being Max sounds nice but no hints in the movie. Maybe Neil could say something like “you were a father figure” or “I know you since I was a kid”... but Nolan wants to make it so complex and open to interpretation so that he can take credit in the future for the one he likes the most.

Nolan did many of my favorite movies but I won’t create a lot of expectation for his next movies.

I admire your ability to sit through this garba......excuse me experience twice. I have to admit my interest in the movie had waned off almost completely by the reveal so it's quite possible I wasn't listening or watching very closely, but was it implied that the protagonist and Robert Pattinson's character are the same? I have some faint memory of Pattinson talking about the protagonist getting him involved in the time inversion thing and I thought he just recruited and trained him or something. Then again it wouldn't surprise me if what you say was implied because they did seem to want to make a movie that was really deep and multilayered and complex and thought provoking, but I just don't think the end result is anything of those except maybe complex in a negative sense.

If you watch his movies again you will see he was always that bad. People are affected by the sense of nostalgia and the first impression when they watched his movies for the first time, but if you watch it again after many years from the grown up perspective you see his movies were always visually attractive but crap storywise

I lasted about 3 or 4 minutes on this one. The guy running around in the beginning like some kind of sprinter in training was just too much for me.

I didn’t hate it, but it was really confusing and the time inversion stuff made it hard to follow at times. I enjoyed Memento & Inception, but this one didn’t impress me nearly as much.

@aholejones said:

He generally makes movies with good stories and his directing is usually top notch. Not so much here. Very bad acting from the main lead and Kenneth Branagh for starters. The main lead gives his lines with zero emotion like he is reading them of cue cards and Branagh does some kind of a over the top russian accent and does his hardest to look and sound menacing, but he looks like the kind of guy who cries everytime he watches 'Father of the Bride' (1 or2). The movie is very disjointed and it's almost like a series of random scenes just glued together. Now we have our hero parasailing, next he is somehow launching himself on top of a building, next he is planning a heist with his friend in Estonia, next scene they are already on the heist etc. Feels like Nolan wanted to cram way too much into the film and the result is this movie where the plot just wildly jumps from one location and scene to another. Time inversion.....I'm starting to wish I could invert myself and warn myself not to watch this movie!

I agree. All exposition, zero emotional involvement. I had been looking forward to Tenet so much, but when I watched the Blu-ray I actually felt insulted by it. The penultimate scene where the algorithm was being detonated/buried was ridiculous with teams walking forwards/backwards firing guns at invisible enemies.

Movie cuts and editing between scenes was awful. At one point, they're engaged in a gun battle right in the middle of the street, and in second scene they're in the warehouse. Looks like they were strapped with portable teleportation device.

Check the facts.. Fire suppression systems use "HALON" gas, not "Halide".

@thewarm said:

Check the facts.. Fire suppression systems use "HALON" gas, not "Halide".

I think you got the wrong thread, but I wish somebody had filled my room with HALON gas when I was watching this movie!