Tenet

Actors: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh

Rating: 9 out of 10, getting a handle on Tenet is not an easy adventure. It’s another Christopher Nolan attempt to thoroughly confuse the viewer. I’m sure he has a lot of fun formulating consternation and this would have been a blockbuster, absent the pandemic, as ardent movie goers (guilty) would have paid to see it multiple times to figure out exactly what the hell was going on. Inside all the twists and turns it is a pretty cool action flick featuring Denzel’s boy in the lead role. My wife picked up some interesting physicality the two share, such as his gait and gestures. Washington plays a CIA operative who is brought into a shadowy organization that is fighting a time traveling war with an evil Russian tycoon bent on destroying the world. Kenneth Branagh does his usual reveling in a villainous role and seemed to emit rancor. Elizabeth Delbicki is kind of wasted in a supporting role, I kept expecting to get more from her. It took me three watches to finally believe I understand what happened and that is interesting in and of itself. Don’t watch this movie a first time if you’re not prepared to revisit it in the future to diffuse confusion. I guess it really is a time travel movie.

MVP: Robert Pattinson as rhe ever evolving Neil