Atom User Reviews for Tenet

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#notmyfave
Verified Review
#canyousayagainthethingaboutthestuffintheplace

Cool movie. Had no desire to think hard enough to figure out what was going on. This movie is spoiler proof.

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Nick R
Verified Review
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Tenet was amazing! I thought I knew what to expect going in but I was completely blown away! When and how I expected things to be wasn’t. Instead, it was so much better!

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Kelly L
Verified Review
#confusing
#slow
#notmyfave
#boring

awful movie. walked out before ending!

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BRIAN M
Verified Review
#mustsee

Great Movie John David Washington is a star 🌟

GG
Geno G
Verified Review
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Best movie in years!

CB
Chris B
Verified Review
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very hard to follow.

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Justin E
Verified Review
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I personally think this is one of the most misunderstood movies of all time. This film was expected to single handedly carry the theater industry on its back and raise it from the dead. It was expected to do this by resembling that of inception. This film is not inception, it is yet again an extremely original story with a mind bending scientific overlay. This film is not meant to be seen once and judged. This is art, it requires time (no pun intended) to process and ponder. Upon my third viewing finally realized how much I truly love this film. Yes the sound mixing is off. But the minor defect of the sound mixing pales into comparison ti the positives generated from the score, storyline, science, and characterization (yes characterization) of the movie. Come a few years from now, we will all be thanking tenet for being bold and willing to save theaters, revitalize true and original cinema, and make science nerds like me sit on the edge of our seats with a smile from ear to ear.

KJ
Kelton J
Verified Review
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Got to the movie late but left before it started

SB
Samuel B
Verified Review
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need to see twice. One of the best car chase scenes I ever saw. Great fight scenes.

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Shellese D
Verified Review
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Sound effects were loud in parts, drowning out the actors speaking and the music soundtrack. Overall great movie!

RA
Ryan A
Verified Review
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Very confusing plot but interesting!

HL
Han L
Verified Review
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AA
Anirudh A
Verified Review
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Ultra exciting

GM
Greg M
Verified Review
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Very intriguing story, amazing score, most adept casting, and elegant set pieces. Only various flavoring from C. Nolan's previous films, but just enough to still stand on its own.

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varice V
Verified Review
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This movie is so so so goodd. Likkk no 🧢

RU
Richard U
Verified Review
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#boring
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Movie really dragged after an hour made me want to leave the theatre first Christopher Nolan film that I don’t like

LG
Leonel G
Verified Review

I will eventually see it and then give a fair honest review.

DR
Donna R
Verified Review
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As an action film, it’s a good recommendation. As a Christopher Nolan movie, it’s one of his weakest

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Johny C
Verified Review
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you really need to pay attention to every detail, you try to put the pieces together as the movie goes on but get distracted with all the intense action scenes

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eduardo D
Verified Review
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Will see again!

JP
Jerry P
Verified Review
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A must see!!

CG
Clyde G
Verified Review
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Could have done without the constant background music. It detracted from the movie.

AB
Aaron B
Verified Review

Confusing

AG
Abisai G
Verified Review
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This movie was fantastic, and I’m super glad that it was the first movie I got to see in theaters since before the pandemic. 10/10 recommend.

RG
RJ G
Verified Review
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Good music choice

LC
Leo C
Verified Review
#confusing

This movie goes back and forth you have no idea if they are talking past or future. At the end I completely lost interest

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Aileen L
Verified Review
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Very unique and mind blowing movie

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Roy Y
Verified Review
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Really good and attention grabbing

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Addie H
Verified Review
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This is an intense, fast-paced, action-packed, and compelling film. i agree with some critics who point out the problems with sound mixing. On some occasions Tenet desperately needs subtitles.

DK
Dolan K
Verified Review
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Way over my head. Needed subtitles because I couldn’t understand what they were saying.

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Justin H
Verified Review
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Left me speechless, it’s a must see in 2020

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Sergio J
Verified Review
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I’ve seen it twice already! Love this movie

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Brianna Z
Verified Review
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Very creative story. Makes you wonder and really ties it together at the end. That’s where it all clicks.

MP
Michael P
Verified Review
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It was loud making it hard to hear the dialogue and it was confusing. Visually it was cool but really just an ok film.

DC
Devin C
Verified Review
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Once again Christopher Nolan blows our mind!! Great movie, probably have to watch it twice to get the full picture.

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Kirubel N
Verified Review
#actionpacked

Amazing

BD
Ben D
Verified Review

Sucks

SS
Samuel S
Verified Review
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Was very well thought out, left me shook

FV
Felicia V
Verified Review
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Would watch again!!!

SF
Samuel F
Verified Review
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Nolan never misses

KS
Kevin S
Verified Review
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Pretty good movie

RT
Ronny T
Verified Review
#gripping

Worth 2 watches. Complex plot is resolved satisfyingly and beautifully by the end.

BM
B M
Verified Review

Plot was weirrd ... still don’t know what I watched

CW
Cortez W
Verified Review
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Too long

AB
Andrea B
Verified Review
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Loses focus with time travel but you can live with the try. All good otherwise

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Brenda S
Verified Review
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#purecinema

TENET is a masterpiece in filmmaking. The very reason to watch movies on Big Screen. Hands down, best movie of the year!

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Prasanna R
Verified Review
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Definitely a Christopher Nolan plot, a bit confusing, hard to understand the speech of characters over music and special effects. Accepting certain things without much explanation is a must, then story comes together piece by piece as the movie ends.

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Alex O
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Great mind game movie... did not need the one F-word! Otherwise real clean language film.

MT
Marshall T
Verified Review
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It was really good. I feel I need to see it again to really understand everything. It was complex!!!

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Felicia M Anderson F
Verified Review

It’s great, but just too much.

AA
Angel A

Metacritic

80
Aug 21, 2020

Once again seizing control of the medium, Nolan attempts to alter the fabric of reality, or at least blow the roof off the multiplexes. Big, bold, baffling and bonkers.

Metacritic review by Alex Godfrey
Alex Godfrey
Empire
75
Aug 21, 2020

No other artform could quite present such a collision of time, place, idea and emotion, and it’s clear that Nolan’s pure intent is to give us the utmost of what this medium can uniquely provide. At its best this is a ride that manages to be viscerally thrilling while still being emotionally and intellectually engaging, all in ways that are truly, uniquely cinematic. In other words, say what you will about the tenets of Tenet, at least it has an ethos.

Jason Gorber
Slashfilm
42
Aug 21, 2020

What kind of picture is it? Big, certainly: IMAX-scaled, and a hefty 150 minutes even after a visibly ruthless edit. It’s clever, too — yes, the palindromic title has some narrative correlation — albeit in an exhausting, rather joyless way. As second comings go, Tenet is like witnessing a Sermon on the Mount preached by a savior who speaks exclusively in dour, drawn-out riddles. Any awe is flattened by follow-up questions.

Mike McCahill
IndieWire