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I think it works very well in Dunkirk and it helps a lot that it's merely 100 minutes long, Tenet is pulling the same level of character work and yet it's trying to get away with 2 and a half hours.

To be honest, I don't get the idea here, this concept feels like it desperately needed an Edge of Tomorrow-esque script and instead it takes itself super seriously, and there are no characters to help you out.

Seen the trailer an unhealthy amount of times by now.

and that vooooiiiiiiceeee

Batman and Bane's first fight is where he finally figured out to pull the camera back and hold on shots for the fist fights. We get the spacial geography of the scene and it's so much better to look at, and Batman being way out of his depth is properly established and we feel ever punch he takes. Not every action scene in the movie is that good, but he was certainly getting there, now Tenet feels like a monumental step back in basic geography and clearly established motivations.

I honestly don't even think he had a bag of tricks for this one, it was desperately in need of more than one.

By the 5th or 6th time characters were walking down generic streets explaining things at each other I was already done with it. Same by the 5th or 6th time characters were having dinner as they explain things at each other. Nolan has absolutely no idea where to put these unnecessary and needless exposition dumps so it becomes the same scene over and over again. I had no trouble understanding Inception or Interstellar on a first viewing, I genuinely don't think it's just a matter of seeing it again for Tenet. It is just terribly constructed and feels like it has been edited to death. I got actual Bohemian Rhapsody flashbacks from some of these shot-reverse-shot dinner scenes. I thought the action in this was a total 180 from his Dark Knight Rises days where it finally seemed like Nolan had figured out how to do action. I found one action scene to be alright, it was interesting, but then everything else ranged from dull to flat out terrible with the worst sense of geography or narrative clarity I've ever seen from him. Ahahaha, I certainly know what you mean.

My god, what a frustrating experience. Frustrating and soulless with next to zero return of investment. Jesus Christ there's nothing to it. The people I went with hate me now for dragging them to this.

Completely forgot I'm seeing this in 2 hours, better get ready.

Everything you're saying here is why I'm giving it high praise. Smaller scale Batman movie focusing on the character actually being the world's greatest detective for once.

It means nothing right now no matter how high or low it is.

Hence why I said "had only been press screenings", it has been sitting at an 8.5 before it was out in any worldwide markets. Even today, worldwide markets are very scarce.

Well because it's fanboy central, they rated it that high when there had only been press screenings.

"You're part of this too" "How am I a part of this?" "You'll see." It seems pretty clear that what you are describing is what the movie is about.

I'm 100% sure they shot it out of order but that doesn't automatically mean it's a lot of good stuff to use in marketing. It limits your options to put together a coherent story in trailer form by quite a bit. To take The Dark Knight as an example it could've been as if the majority of what they shot were the more mundane scenes like Lucius Fox's visit in Hong Kong or Bruce chilling on his yacht... you gonna put that exciting footage in a Batman trailer? And then to also make it form a story through all the footage that builds the proper intrigue for the film, it's not easy when you don't get to choose from even a sizeable bit of the production.

This trailer is phenomenal, it is unreal how strong it is when they only had 25% of the production to choose from.

Looks like a lot of fun.

If it didn't matter, Nolan wouldn't stuff his movies with endless amounts of them.

Does Nolan just have ears that function differently than the rest of us? How can this keep happening and especially how can it be as bad as it seems to be here.

Assuming Tenet's done on RT for the day, here's how it compares to the first day of Nolan's three previous films; Dunkirk 97% Avg: 8.96/10 Interstellar 69% nice. Avg: 7.28/10 The Dark Knight Rises 86% 9.03/10 and then now Tenet 82% Avg: 7.06/10

Back down to 81% with a 7.07/10 average rating.

The problem usually (with Nolan) is the movie is very very complicated with its plotting and exposition - but that's kind of all they are while the characters take a backseat and the themes are left being very simplistic. They're not complex films, just told that way.

15 reviews on RT, 10 fresh 4 rotten 73% overall.

So far going as I expected, I can at least say these are interesting reviews. Both the good and the bad.