Elizabeth Debicki, who played Kat, is 6′ 2 1/2″. To accentuate her height she was often wearing heels and long skirts and there were never any tricks of the camera to make her male co-stars look taller.

John David Washington, who played Protagonist, is Denzel Washington’s son. He was born in 1984 making him the same age as me.

Tenet was the first Nolan movie since The Prestige (2006) not to be scored by Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer was busy working on Dune.

All of the effects in Tenet are practical. They actually crashed a real 747 into a hanger.

Tenet only made $57,909,000 domestically in 2020.

I know all of this because I was so bored by Tenet that I Googled it while I was watching …

Flash back to Christmas Day 2010. My two brothers, 3 year old Maddison and I escaped to my parents’ room (instead of their theater room downstairs … probably something about being close to the family on Christmas) and watched Inception. Right afterwards we watched all of the DVD extras, then we watched Inception again. Maddy didn’t make it through the second screening.

But compare that to a movie watched once and with such disinterest that I spent a good amount of time on my phone. It wasn’t that it was a horrible movie, no that title goes to Wonder Woman 1984. I at least enjoyed the visuals, the concepts were really, really cool, and I even enjoyed the performances. Kenneth Branagh was a solid Bond Villain, John David Washington surprised me, and who the heck knew Robert Pattinson is actually an enjoyable actor? It was the story that was lacking. Especially compared to Nolan’s other works like Memento, Dark Knight, Dunkirk and, of course, Inception, Tenet was lack luster and sloppy. Motivations didn’t make sense and can someone let Nolan know how modern combat is executed?

Other than Nolan having previously been my favorite director, the frustration with this movie is that it could have been really good. Nolan does not disappoint when it comes to how he films all this crazy stuff with practical effects. I mean, Pattinson was actually driving that BMW on the highway. The fight scene in the art vault thingy, that shit was filmed both forwards and backwards. And the actors learned their lines forwards and backwards. How crazy is that? There was such potential there.

Anyway, while Tenet is a cool movie to study if you are wanting to get into film, it’s not that enjoyable for the regular film goer.