10 Recent Films That Totally Blew The Ending

Christopher Nolan's Tenet is, for all of its many faults, an ambitious and complex film which leaves audiences wondering quite how its twisty, labyrinthine narrative is going to tie together.

A shame it was, then, that Nolan opted for a hasty last-minute ass-pull, by revealing that The Protagonist (John David Washington) was actually the mastermind behind Tenet all along.

A future version of the Protagonist set all of the movie's events in motion, including recruiting Neil (Robert Pattinson) to in turn recruit the past Protagonist and basically kick everything off.

It's a noodle-baker for sure, albeit one that feels unnecessarily contrived and over-eager to impress compared to the genuinely ingenious twists in Nolan's prior films such as Memento, The Prestige, and Inception.

Though certainly an interesting and memorable film in its own right, Tenet's overblown ending feels very much like Nolan enjoying the sound of his own voice a little too much. Simply, it's not as clever or logically water-tight as he clearly thinks it is.

Speaking of voices, that ending might've gone down a little smoother were the film's sound mixing not so intentionally overwhelming, rendering so much of both the narrative an active chore to decipher.

Fingers crossed that the impending home video release will help clarify a few things.