5 Best And 5 Worst Things In Tenet

Tenet has a lot to offer moviegoers, whether it's your first Christopher Nolan film or your eleventh. It's big, bold, but it's also flawed. There's a lot to recommend in this ambitious movie, but even its biggest fans would admit there's a few things that could be done better.

Like many filmmakers, Christopher Nolan seems to have a list of favorite actors to fall back on when starting pre-production on a new project. We can only hope Robert Pattinson gets added to Nolan's first-look list, because he rules in this movie.

Pattinson's character, Neil, has a particularly difficult part to play in this film, as he has a lifelong friendship with John David Washington's Protagonist that the Protagonist doesn't even know about until the end. Pattinson maintains that façade with ease and artistry, but throws in little bits of emotion here and there to portray Neil's inner conflict as he tries to repress his natural inclination to be the Protagonist's friend in their more casual conversations. It all helps the audience to understand that relationship in its totality later on.

He's a little goofy and fun, too, sometimes appearing in scenes with a loose tie and rumpled appearance when he doesn't need to be putting on airs for anybody, or aiming for humor and charmingly missing the mark. His performance adds a much-appreciated spark to the film, bucking Nolan's tendency to write emotionally sterile characters for twisty narratives that use people like pieces in a sophisticated game.

It's been mentioned many times before, but Christopher Nolan's fondness for big, booming scores, a tradition Tenet lives up to admirably, has a tendency to get in the way of something very important to just about every movie. Specifically, dialogue. Keep watching the video to see the 5 best and 5 worst things in Tenet.

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Best: Robert Pattinson | 0:00
Worst: Audio mixing | 1:23
Best: Internal consistency - with wiggle room | 3:05
Worst: Kat's motivation | 4:20
Best: Those sexy, sexy visuals | 5:22
Worst: Not enough Ives | 6:31
Best: The emotional thesis | 7:39
Worst: Dialogue in the first half | 8:30
Best: The score | 9:44
Worst: Ease off the explanation | 10:42

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