WAIT…WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
I’m going to be a bit harsh when I say this, but I’m going to come out and just say it. Why is Christopher Nolan still allowed to make movies? His name should be up there with Michael Bay’s, on a list of banned filmmakers. Yes, I understand that you love his Batman movies, and some of you artist out there treat his movies like IQ test, bragging to all your friends that you know how to decipher his movies. But movies are not supposed to be deciphered. And we’re not supposed to watch youtube videos that explain, “What we missed…”
I dunno, maybe I’m being a bit too harsh on Nolan for making me sit through Interstellar, a space travel movie that sends an Astronaut through space, just to end up in a different dimension, and stuck behind a bookcase on earth. Talk about overcomplicating space travel.
And on that note, that brings us to Tenet. A simple time travel movie that gets over complicated by Chris Nolan’s brain, then mistaken by movie critics as genius. Apparently, time travel in his movie can result in talking backwards, running backwards, driving backwards – then forwards, that by the end of the movie you tell yourself, “I kinda know what went on…but still….this is…wait, what happened? Am I having a Joe Biden moment?”
All I can say is that I watched this movie hoping to enjoy it, and not only is it slow and confusing, but I honestly don’t know what it’s about. I can’t even attempt to explain the technology in this movie. All I know is that the hero, who is literally known as “The Protagonist” went from saving an extremely tall woman stuck in an abusive relationship, to saving the world from ending by stopping an “end of the world” algorithm, which you don’t enter into a computer. Apparently, this algorithm is in a physical form and looks like a magnetic baton. Uhm, what type of algorithm is this?
I wish I had more to add to this movie because I don’t know what I just watched. I can’t break this down because it’s a complete throw-up. The script should have been thrown in the trash.
But just to let you know, this movie had all the characteristics of Chris Nolan’s film. A simple storyline was complicated to the point of confusion, the background music was way too loud, the dialogue was muffled at times and inaudible, characters overexplained theories way too often, and storylines that kept circling back, over and over. I’m just glad we didn’t end up behind a bookshelf.
GRADE: F
Steve Young
