As many here noticed, it is incredibly frustrating to need a second watching to understand a movie. So I won't do it. Because when you do this kind of movies, you need to be sure that the first watching will already be a pleasure. It's not. Compare it with the sixth sense. When you don't know the end, you miss some details, and if you watch it twice it can be interesting but you don't have to do it. Here, the first watching is a pain and you HAVE to watch it twice to understand. Not because it's very intellectual. Not even because it uses some SF concepts. I've read a lot about time travel, I'm not scared of theses stories. No, it's the horrible dialogues and exposition scene that messes up the movie.
I have no idea why the dialogues are that fast but it's beyond ridiculous. Characters are almost cutting each other off, like they're gonna miss a train or something. And this for the whole duration of the movie, so I had to use subtitles, like I suddenly forgot the English language.
So I won't do my homework and watch it again because I wanted an experience, not a working task.
The music is overly dramatic. It's good to have overwhelming atmosphere when the scene is important and intense, but there is heavy music all the time for 2 hours, so it loses all signification. It's rare to see epic music so badly used.
Also, Robbert Pattinson is pretty good, but the MC has no emotion whatsoever. You might as well put a robot. It is a SF movie anyway.
Let's mention that the first scene is a mass shooting in a concert hall, like the 2015 attacks in France. It was very shocking to see that, and Nolan couldn't possibly ignore this fact. That is such a low-key way to make his movie stand out.
The whole thing reminded me of the new brainless James Bond movies, when MC need to get some item to prevent the world from total extinction, which require a lot of pew-pew (that is the official term) and car racing (there is even a blonde). I hate this "rich" visuals with big cars, big boats, even planes, just to make things look expensive. Where is the story ?
So, Nolan added some time reversing stuff to make things complicated and intellectual, but it doesn't really make sense. Maybe it does to him, to the writers even, but if it doesn't in the spectator's eye, then it doesn't matter. And the exposition scene doesn't explain anything, except that some object are time-reversed thanks to a future technology.
- why does this work with people too, after half ot the movie ?
- do they stay reversed forever ?
- Does this property depends on the material ?
- what about the paradoxes ?
- What about the Tenet word ? They didn't use it a single time. Did they actually read their own story ?
- How reversed object are gonna possibly interact with normal objects ? The whole movie is based on this object having their own arrow of time but it cannot make sense. Some physicists argue that there is no arrow of time, like Minkowski's cube, but things still have to go ALL in a certain direction. Nolan's movie is just pure chaos.
Because of the movie story, fight scenes are used twice and I couldn't believe it. I have to watch this again ?? Even if you watch the movie once, you get some stuff twice. What a scam.
I hate the pseudo-scientific talk that is supposed to make everyone asleep and fall for it. So the objects are time-reversed because of some future radiation stuff. Yeah sure. I'm sorry but I love science, so I can't love this movie.The idea that some kind of formula is gonna suddenly make us able to violate laws of physics is so childish.We know gravity's law, are we able to control gravity ?
The moral at the end is so pseudo-philosophical and forced that it shouldn't make it to the second draft. My two stars are for the visuals.
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