Just saw it... Had low expectations... It was worse than I thought it would be 4/10 SPOILERS

Big Spoilers ahead possibly....(just letting out a bit of steam)

The Good Points... A couple of interesting inversion scenes, and a nice ending scene.

The Bad...

By far the worst of Nolan, by far the worst movie of his I have seen.

So disappointed in the lack of 'Wow' moments, which seemed nailed on at least.

I was surprised how little inversion stuff there was in the first half of the movie. Basically about 2 minutes and that was it, by which time I was bored out of my head with a 'story' that just seemed daft and jumped all over the place without going anywhere.

When the inversion stuff did kick off it was really disappointing. I had read somebody say the best bits are in the trailer, and that's pretty much true. Much of the inversion stuff just is not that interesting bar a couple of good scenes.

Michael Caine talking with his mouth full. WTF
Hamish Patel had about 4 lines (and the positive reviews I read said he had a good fun performance.... No he didn't he had about 4 lines).
Kenneth Brannagh was totally miscast, and overused, and I liked him in Dunkirk.

The main cast were ok, but nothing more. Pattison looked like he was in the wrong movie as he actually seemed to have a bit of personality and character, but we didn't see much of it.

Don't know if it was my screening, but everything was very 'dark' as though I was watching a 3d movie with the specs (which I wasn't). Didn't really have any sound issues, but the dialogue just seemed largely unimportant anyhow.

Totally humourless (except one Michael Caine scene 'joke' , maybe), yet it never felt like the stakes were as high as they were trying to make them. A totally empty exercise in nonsense.


Nolan's breakout movie of 20 years ago, Memento, was a head scratcher too, but it hit the ground running, had some amusing moments, very interesting characters and a conceot / 'gimmick' that worked brilliantly., And was tightly edited. Tenet is like.an inversion of that movie.

As I was leaving I saw a bunch of kids around 12-13 years of age clearly bored and confused by it all leaving with their folks, and that summed it all.up for me.