After getting captured on a failed mission a CIA agent endures torture and takes a cyanide capsule to make sure he does not reveal any secrets. He wakes up to a recruitment agent giving him an offer to save the world from something bigger.
And here I will warn about possible spoilers. So continue at your own discretion.
Tenet is a science fiction temporal spy action movie. It takes a twist on the classic James Bond type of movie by adding the time dimension. Not only is the special agent working the spacial plane of the powers around the world he also has to work with travelling back and forth in time. And Christopher Nolan makes exceptional use of the time dimension. It is amazing how he has combined forward going and backwards action throughout the entire movie. The effects are incredible amazing and cutting edge. The acting is on point and the story is great and innovative but the thing that makes the movie a unique piece of art is the combination and execution.
I will not call it a mind-blowing masterpiece like I imagine some Nolan fans will just like they do with Inception. I do find it great in many ways, more for the cinematic than the actual story. But even if the story is not the part I like the most about the movie it is still a good story. The thing I am most impressed with is the combination of forward going and backwards going actions combined together. It is an exciting action movie that I am really trying to not spoil too much. But if your are interested in a thought or two on the time-travelling check below. I give this movie five out of five stars. It is a unique movie that could be influential for many generations of movies.
And since I am a time-travel enthusiast I will take a moment to talk about the use of time-travel. This movie takes a stand point in a singular timeline theory even though it makes a single mention of possible other timelines. We only experience a single timeline in the story which the characters travel and back forth on. The time-travelling technology of this movie is a machine that can reverse your experience of the timeline. Meaning that if you have been reversed the world will experience you moving backwards and you will experience the world going backwards. This technology lets you backtrack the timeline whereas a conventional time-machine just move you directly to the chosen time. By backtracking the timeline all your actions while going backwards will still influence the world that goes forwards. The flaw of this technology is also that even though you travel backwards your body will still age normally. You will therefore not be able to travel further back in time than the amount of time you have back to live. So since the movie is working off from a singular timeline viewpoint everything that will happen has happened and everything that has happened will happen. You can not change the timeline everything is predetermined. Nolan shows good understanding of this. The two problems of working with a singular timeline is as followed, there is no free will and it opens up for the possibility of paradoxes. I therefore like the idea of multiple timelines better as it eliminates this. Nolan could have made this movie with the use of multiple timelines but it would have made it all much more complex. The thing with multiple timelines is that every single choice and action creates a branch for every possible outcome. This means that there are an infinite amount of alternative timelines. With a conventional time-machine a new timeline would be created when you travel back in time and start from the point you land on. But with this technology you are already on the time-travel timeline branch as it leads up to the point where you backtrack and your actions both forwards and backwards will influence the timeline and create different new timelines. But if you cross yourself at any point going forward on the timeline it will always lead up to the point where you backtrack. Crossing yourself would be fixed points in the timeline that would have to happen just like in the singular timeline. Except if the version of you, you cross is actually not the version of you that backtracks. As I said, multiple timelines would make this movie so much more complicated. The point where using multiple timelines would really differ from using singular timeline would be when the character started to move forward again. In a singular timeline that would just mean that there is yet another version of you on the timeline but with multiple timelines the timeline would branch into another timeline just like if you had used a conventional machine. Because when moving forward there would now be an additional you that was not there the first time you moved forward on the timeline. And it would be possible for you to things that would change how timeline was the first time you moved forward. You would be able to kill yourself without it creating a paradox.
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