Tenet: When Plot Eclipses Character
In some ways, this is another Nolan masterpiece. In others, it’s a film where Story is completely drowned by Plot
He’s done it, he’s finally done it. Christopher Nolan, everyone’s most anticipated film-maker, has made the cinematic equivalent of Einstein’s relativity. A non-fiction, fiction flick jam-packed with spectacle enough that Tom Cruise might actually have to jump from space to top it. Teachers the world over should take note, if you want kids to learn just wrap the info in so much action they’re forced to engage. The only trouble is there’s so much going on in Tenet you’re left wondering, why do I care again?
Nolan’s new epic for all its phenomenal action scenes and reality-bending set-piece spectacles suffers from a lack of heart that his earlier and equally ambitious films haven’t. So, how has this happened?
-I’m not going to get into the how behind the concept because that would get into spoiler territory, which in this film is like trying to understand relativity by saying it has something to do with science-
