10 Incredible Scenes From Mediocre Movies

A controversial choice perhaps, considering that Christopher Nolan's Tenet has its many passionate defenders, but the director's exposition-heavy, aurally-challenged presentation ultimately did his undeniably fascinating premise no favours at all.

The film nevertheless kicks off in unquestionably attention-grabbing fashion, however, with by far its best scene.

Tenet begins with the Protagonist (John David Washington) taking part in a siege at an opera house in Kiev, where he attempts to seize part of a potentially world-annihilating algorithm.

We as audience members have very little context for what we're watching at the time - especially with so much of the dialogue being rendered scarcely-audible via muddy sound mixing - but it's a propulsive, thrilling set-piece all the same which perfectly sets a high-octane spy-thriller vibe.

Though the rest of the movie fails on the follow-through, on its own merits the opera house assault is another classically enticing Christopher Nolan opening - and again confirms that he just needs to make a damn Bond film already.