We Live in a Twilight World: A Tenet Review

I can finally, finally review Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.

Look, I’ve wanted to see this movie for a long time. Ever since I saw the first trailer, saw cars flipping backwards and that masked soldier crawling backwards on the ground, I knew I needed to see it.

But then COVID happened, and theaters shut down. Everything got delayed. You live on Earth; you know what’s going on.

In August, when Tenet finally hit theaters, I wrote about how I wasn’t planning on going to see it; this had nothing to do with the quality of the movie or my desires to see it- as I said, I’ve been waiting to see this one- but I just didn’t feel like I could safely sit in a theater for 2–3 hours to watch a movie. And I didn’t think Tenet- or any of the movies I’ve been dying to see- was worth, well, dying to see it.

So I waited. I tried my best not to read reviews. I actually did write one review related to Tenet- I couldn’t see the movie, but I could listen to the soundtrack, and Ludwig Göransson’s music was worthy of its own review. But I’m getting ahead of myself in this review.