Tenet (2020)
7.3 IMDb
70 Rotten Tomatoes

Where To Watch Tenet (2020)

Tenet is Christopher Nolan’s ambitious sci-fi espionage thriller built around one extraordinary concept: inversion, a process that allows objects and people to move backward through the flow of time. The story follows an unnamed CIA operative known simply as the Protagonist (John David Washington), who is recruited into a secret organization called Tenet after surviving a deadly operation at a Kyiv opera house. His mission eventually leads him into a global conspiracy involving Neil (Robert Pattinson), his mysterious and highly capable partner, and Kat (Elizabeth Debicki), the estranged wife of Russian oligarch Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh).

  • Release Date: September 3, 2020
  • Director: Christopher Nolan
  • Genre: Action , Spy , Mystery , Thriller
  • Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes (150 minutes)
  • Language: English
  • Starring: Kenneth Branagh — Andrei Sator
  • Box Office: approximately $376.6 million
  • Where To Watch: Amazon Prime Video , Apple TV , Netflix

More details about Tenet (2020) and where you can watch

One of the most remarkable aspects of Tenet is that Christopher Nolan wanted the film’s unusual action sequences to feel as physically real as possible. Instead of relying entirely on digital effects, the production combined practical effects, stunt work and large-scale physical set pieces with visual effects. The film was shot across seven countries and used both IMAX and 70mm film, contributing to its unusually large-scale visual presentation.

The movie’s central idea is not traditional time travel. Nolan deliberately uses the term inversion to describe a process in which an object’s entropy is reversed, making it appear to move backward through time relative to the normal world. This is why bullets can appear to fly back into guns, objects can seemingly un-crash, and characters can fight opponents moving in opposite temporal directions.

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Did You Know

The title TENET has a fascinating literary and historical connection. It forms part of the famous Sator Square, an ancient Latin word square containing the words SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA and ROTAS.