10 Sci-Fi Movies That Were Way Too Complicated
2. Tenet
You thought Nolan hadn't gotten away with it when we talked about Inception in a good way, didn't you?
No chance!
Tenet - aka Inception: Don't Push Your Luck edition - was basically the only thing at the cinema over the pandemic-stricken summer of 2020. In hindsight, it might have actually been more fun to be trapped indoors.
Starring John David Washington as a character just called "The Protagonist" (ugh), Tenet is about a secret organisation that can manipulate the flow of time.
If only the actual movie were as easy to understand as that premise.
Messing around with time is already a dangerous game, but Tenet takes it to the extreme. There's people going forwards in time, backwards in time, forwards and backwards at the same time, backwards to meet people who are going forwards to turn them around to go backwards again.
And all of this is without mentioning Kenneth Branagh's "Russian" accent - the most confusing part of the whole thing!
Nolan may finally have gone too far with this one, no matter what the fanboys say.
Thank God his next movie is just a biopic.