Andre Rupert – Google

I found Tenet to be an experience more than just a movie you watch and forget about. It begs to be discussed and understood. [My 13 year old watched it with me on my third viewing and she found the film captivating and worthy of her time (and that is saying alot for the 10 sec video generation)... And by the way she grasp the concept and most of the story in her first viewing with the occasional "wait what... oh... how could someone think up a movie like this and then make it". I replied "that's what I felt like when I saw Star Wars as a kid in the 80s". Mindblowing.] The films concept is bold and refreshing and I for one enjoy films that are crafted with such complexity that serves the story and can completely anesthetize my expectation. This film was like nothing I have ever seen before and I welcome that. I can honeslty say it was vaguely familiar yet completely unpredictable. I knew there would be fight scenes... but not like I thought. I knew there would be a beginning and an end... again not like I thought. I can't help but appreciate a story that makes me feel "new" at movie watching. It reminds me of when I was a child and found every film entertaining and cool. For a while I actually thought my taste in films had become more sophisticated, but in truth I haven't grown any more sophisticated at all, films however, have degenerated into simple, predictable, uncreative simulacrum of originality. I am disappointed by the mediocre ratings and reviews I've seen. It makes me think of the audiences in the 2006 film "Idiocracy" where in the film if the people couldn't understand something, they said it was "stupid" or "dumb". They completely destroyed what they didn't understand behind a wall crude jokes and slapstick humor. But for us viewing the film we knew they were the idiots, hence the title. But this film encourages you to experience it more than once. Surprisingly it gets better with repeat viewing. Not because you "get it now" but because you see it was intended to be viewed and scrutinized repeatedly. Like Stanley Kubrick or Terry Gilliam films, full of hidden meaning and nuances. The film respects and assumes the audience is intelligent and wants to think for themselves. Tenet is well paced, and hums with tension. The cinematography and the score by Ludwig Göransson are awesome. This film deserves an honest review. Like Nolan's previous films this film tries to reach for heights unseen. In 2005 Batman Begins reached and set forth a superhero benchmark that many films later benefited from but dare not reach any higher. In 2010 Inception gave us a film that proved a high concept scifi film could be ultra cool fun. We've had ten years to prepare for what Nolan has crafted with Tenet and I think it deserves more than a reputation for being "confusing".