Tenet: 10 Reasons It's Christopher Nolan's Worst Film Ever

4. It's Too Damn Complicated

Christopher Nolan is known for his convoluted plots, but he generally does them brilliantly. Usually, there are more than enough thrills and emotional beats to keep viewers invested and by the end you'll usually get a sense of what was really going on. Additionally, in past Nolan films the plots really represented something meaningful.

In Memento, the complicated plot represented the protagonist's short-term amnesia. In Inception, the different dream mechanics were in the service of a thrilling heist story and there was an emotional story-line about guilt at its heart too. In Interstellar, there was a powerful story about father-daughter love at the centre. In Tenet, there's... nothing.

There's no substance at its core, so even if you do somehow work out what the hell all of it means, there's nothing interesting to discover. It feels like a film that's impenetrable and convoluted purely for the sake of it and this gives the film an arrogant, pretentious air which is very off-putting indeed.

When it comes to complicated plots, there is a line between 'Complex' and 'Just Plain Arrogant' and Tenet crosses it big time.