This is by far the biggest disappointment of the year. I saw Christopher Nolan bagging the studio for releasing Tenet on HBO - he's lucky this movie made it anywhere near a cinema release. I'd be demanding my money back if I saw this in a cinema.
It's hard to know where to begin listing this film's failures. Dialogue is the main problem - hard to hear, but also far too much of it, trying to explain and build the silly, over-complicated plot line. They forgot the movie maxim: show don't tell, and the actors also struggle with their lines, particularly John David Washington who often looks as confused as the audience, and a miscast Kenneth Branagh is unconvincing as the Russian heavy. Only Elizabeth Debecki delivers any depth in her cliched damsel-in-distress role.
As for the plot, who knows what that was about, saving the world from Armageddon or something, wrapped in another time warp theme represented lamely by reversing the video. Only the exotic locales and action scenes, a la Bond but not as good, kept me watching, the only thing to justify that huge, wasted $205 mil budget.
It's hard to know where to begin listing this film's failures. Dialogue is the main problem - hard to hear, but also far too much of it, trying to explain and build the silly, over-complicated plot line. They forgot the movie maxim: show don't tell, and the actors also struggle with their lines, particularly John David Washington who often looks as confused as the audience, and a miscast Kenneth Branagh is unconvincing as the Russian heavy. Only Elizabeth Debecki delivers any depth in her cliched damsel-in-distress role.
As for the plot, who knows what that was about, saving the world from Armageddon or something, wrapped in another time warp theme represented lamely by reversing the video. Only the exotic locales and action scenes, a la Bond but not as good, kept me watching, the only thing to justify that huge, wasted $205 mil budget.