Tenet: "Don't try to understand it, feel it"
It is the year of 2020 and cinema is reaching its last breaths. The overlords of Disney have fled to streaming sites while huge franchises like James Bond and Marvel refuse to release globally until COVID 19 has been removed. It all seems hopeless for cinema fans (including myself) but there is one last hope, and his name, is Nolan. With his eleventh feature film after his dive into genre filmmaking with sci-fi epic Interstellar and war time thriller Dunkirk . Nolan once again returns to his roots with a new action packed spy enigma that plays with the concepts of time and narrative, Tenet . The title itself is a giveaway to the films main attraction as a palindrome, a sequence that reads the same backwards and forwards. This is explored by our protagonist played by John David Washington, a CIA operative thrown into a secret Cold War between the present and their future. The film unfolds more in the vein of a James Bond experience, darting from one expensive location to another, thwar