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Delayed three times due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Tenet'' premiered in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70 mm. The film received positive reviews from critics, who favorably compared it to Nolan's ''[[Inception]]'' and praised the cast's performances, though some lamented the confusing plot and impassive tone.
Delayed three times due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], ''Tenet'' premiered in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, [[35 mm movie film|35 mm]], and 70 mm. The film received positive reviews from critics, who favorably compared it to Nolan's ''[[Inception]]'' and praised the cast's performances, though some lamented the confusing plot and impassive tone.



== Plot ==
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In an [[opera house]] in [[Ukraine]], a [[terrorist]] siege occurs, and the Ukrainian police respond. The real target for both groups is a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spy there, who has obtained an unidentified object. CIA agents attempting an extraction are betrayed by the Ukrainians. The Protagonist (Washington), a CIA agent, is once saved by a masked gunman using time-reversing technology. The Ukrainians capture and torture the Protagonist. He bites on a [[suicide pill]] before revealing information.
The [[Protagonist]], a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent under the gise of Ukrainian policeman, participates in an undercover Russian operation to steal an unidentified object during a terrorist siege on an opera in [[Kyiv]]. After retrieving the object, the Protagonist sends part of his team out through a secret exit with it. Soon after, the Protagonist is saved by a masked gunman with a red string on his backpack. The Protagonist rejoins the Russians, who realize that they have been tricked and torture him. He bites on a suicide pill before revealing any information.


The Protagonist is recruited into a secret organization seeking to track down the origin of objects with inverted [[entropy]], which were [[Time travel|sent back into the past]] using future technology. Investigating inverted bullets, the Protagonist is assisted by Neil (Pattinson) to infiltrate the compound of an arms dealer, Priya (Kapadia). She directs them towards Russian oligarch Andrei Sator (Branagh).
Upon waking, the Protagonist learns that the pill had been fake and that the Russians have caught and killed all of his team members, and taken the unidentified object. He is recruited into a secret organization, given only the word "tenet" and a cross-fingered gesture. The Protagonist visits a facility where he learns that in the future, technology has been developed that allows objects to have their [[entropy]] reversed and [[time travel|move backward through time]], and that inverted bullets, capable of dealing more devastating damage than regular bullets, are being brought back from the future and sold on the black market. The Protagonist recruits Neil, and tracking the manufacturing origin of the reversed bullets, they infiltrate the compound of an arms dealer, Priya. She tells the Protagonist that the bullets had been normal when she had sold them and that a man named Andrei Sator, who can communicate with the future, had reversed them.


To reach Sator, the Protagonist approaches Sator's wife Kat (Debicki). Sator is using a forged painting to coerce Kat, so the Protagonist decides to destroy the painting in to win Kat over. During the operation, which involves a plane crashing into the storage facility in [[Oslo Airport]], the Protagonist confronts an inverted masked man, while Neil confronts a regular masked man. Neil unmasks and releases his opponent, then stops the Protagonist from killing the inverted opponent, who escapes. Priya explains that that the facility contained a time inversion device; the two masked men were the same person.
To reach Sator, the Protagonist approaches Sator's wife Kat. She tells the Protagonist that Sator has her under his control, due to a forged painting that she sold to Sator. The Protagonist tries to win her trust by stealing the painting from where Sator has stored it, a [[free port]] in [[Oslo Airport]]. During the operation, which involves a plane crashing into the storage facility, the Protagonist and Neil are attacked by two masked men, who Priya later explains was, in fact, one person. The Protagonist returns to Kat, telling her that the forged painting has been taken care of. Kat arranges for the Protagonist to attend a dinner, where Sator threatens to kill the Protagonist for being involved with Kat. The Protagonist offers to steal the plutonium that Sator has been seeking, in exchange for Kat's freedom. Sator agrees.


The Protagonist and Neil attempt to steal the plutonium from an armoured car in transport. After the plan is interrupted by an inverted car, the Protagonist is forced by Sator, holding Kat hostage, to hand over the case. However, he realizes that it is not plutonium, but an unidentified object similar to the one that he had seen at the opera siege. Sator and his men undertake a 'temporal pincer movement', in which half of his men move forward in time and the other half backward in time, each with knowledge gained from the other half of the team.
Kat arranges for the Protagonist to meet Sator. On an outing, the Protagonist saves Sator from Kat's murder attempt. Sator reveals that information sent from the future had contributed to his wealth. The Protagonist offers to steal the object from the Ukrainians that Sator had been seeking, in exchange for Kat's freedom.

After the Protagonist and Neil steal the object from an armoured car in transport, an inverted Sator confronts them, holding Kat hostage to obtain the object. Neil calls in the secret organization's time-inverting troops to assist. Time inversion devices are used by Sator and the Protagonist to battle over custody of the object, with Sator ultimately prevailing; in the process he severely wounds Kat with an inverted bullet.


With the unidentified object in his possession, Sator inverts himself and disappears, shooting and severely wounding Kat with an inverted bullet. Seeing the plan go south, Neil calls in special forces to handle the situation with a temporal pincer movement of their own. The Protagonist goes after Sator, inverting himself and becoming the driver of the car that disrupted the heist initially. The car crashes, and Sator sets the wreckage on fire. Due to the energy inversion, the car frosts over instead of burning, and Neil is able to rescue the Protagonist, who suffers only minor hypothermia.
[[File:Sator Square at Oppède.jpg|thumb|[[Sator square]], providing the film title, location of opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport).<ref name="Moliis-Mellberg-Aug2020" />]]
[[File:Sator Square at Oppède.jpg|thumb|[[Sator square]], providing the film title, location of opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport).<ref name="Moliis-Mellberg-Aug2020" />]]


To save Kat from death, the Protagonist and Neil join her in inverted time, but they require the device in Oslo Airport to un-invert in the past. They infiltrate the airport, using the earlier plane crash as a distraction: the masked man previously encountered at the airport was actually the future Protagonist. The un-inversion is successful.
In order to ensure Kat heals properly from her wound, the Protagonist and Neil spend a week remaining in inverted time, planning to use the machine in Oslo Airport to un-invert. Donning masked riot armour, the two infiltrate the airport, using the plane crash as a distraction. In the process, the Protagonist realises that the masked man they encountered earlier was actually his own inverted future self. The two manage to un-invert and bring Kat into the forward timeline.

Kat reveals that Sator is dying from inoperable cancer and has turned omnicidal, believing that if he is to die, then all humanity should go with him. She explains that the unidentified objects, nine in total, are nine parts of a yet-to-be-discovered algorithm, capable of inverting the entire world, which was sent back to the past by its inventor in an attempt to prevent it from ever being used. The people in the future who are helping Sator believe that reversing entropy will reverse [[climate change]] and make the Earth habitable for them. The Protagonist questions the logic of future humans [[grandfather paradox|killing their own ancestors and threatening their own existence]]. Neil responds that the future people are facing extinction, and may have no recourse but to try.


With all nine pieces of the algorithm, Sator travels to a time in the past when he was most happy with his wife, where he plans to die peacefully and activate the algorithm with a [[dead man's switch]]. To stop him, the Protagonist and Neil participate in a temporal pincer attack on a Soviet [[closed city]] where the nine pieces of the algorithm are stored. Kat correctly deduces where Sator has gone and travels to that time to prevent him from killing himself before the algorithm can be retrieved.
Priya explains that the object being fought over is part of a future-developed "algorithm" capable of catastrophically inverting the entire world. The algorithm was sent into the past to prevent its use, but future humans, facing extinction from [[climate change]], want Sator to activate it. Kat reveals Sator's motive: he is dying from inoperable cancer and believes that the world should die alongside him.


Sator assembles the algorithm and travels to a time in the past when he was most happy, where he plans to die peacefully and activate the algorithm with a [[dead man's switch]]. He is followed by Kat and the time-inverting secret organization. Kat is to delay Sator's death in Vietnam, while the organization's troops attack a Soviet [[closed city]] to retrieve the algorithm. Kat kills Sator prematurely, but the Protagonist and Neil retrieve the algorithm in time. During the retrieval in the algorithm's room, the Protagonist is saved by a masked corpse who springs back to life inverted.
The Protagonist enters a tunnel and approaches the room where the algorithm is stored. He encounters a locked gate and notices the corpse of a masked man with a red string on his backpack on the other side of the gate. One of Sator's men shoots a gun at the Protagonist, when suddenly, the corpse springs back to life, takes the bullet, unlocks the gate, and reverses out of the tunnel. Kat kills Sator, and the Protagonist and Neil retrieve the algorithm in time. As they part ways, the Protagonist notices that Neil has a red string on his backpack. Neil reveals that the Protagonist had recruited him in the future and reminisces about their long friendship, before departing. In London, the Protagonist protects Kat from being killed by Priya and implies that in the future he will go on to be the founder and leader of the Tenet organisation.


== Cast ==
The organization plans to separately hide the algorithm's components. As Neil and the Protagonist part ways, Neil reminisces about their long partnership, revealing that a future version of the Protagonist had recruited Neil in Neil's past. The Protagonist notices that Neil has a red string on his backpack, similar to his saviors in the opera house and in the algorithm's room. Neil insists he must continue his mission, intending to invert time to return to the algorithm's room.
{{castlist|
* [[John David Washington]] as the Protagonist, a CIA agent<ref name="Schaeffer-May2020" /><ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Robert Pattinson]] as Neil, the Protagonist's [[Agent handling|handler]]<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Elizabeth Debicki]] as Kat, an art auctioneer and Andrei's estranged wife<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Dimple Kapadia]] as Priya,<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /> an [[Arms trafficking|arms trafficker]]<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Michael Caine]] as Sir Michael Crosby, a British Intelligence officer<ref name="Smith-Aug2020" />
* [[Kenneth Branagh]] as Andrei Sator,<ref name="Collin-Aug2020" /> a [[Russian oligarch]] who communes with the future<ref name="Collis" /><ref name="BBC-May2020" />
* [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]] as Ives,<ref name="Sandwell-Aug2020" /> a military commander<ref name="Ovenden-Aug2020" />
* [[Himesh Patel]] as Mahir,<ref name="Connellan-Aug2020" /> a [[Fixer (person)|fixer]]<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Clémence Poésy]] as Laura,<ref name="Connellan-Aug2020" /><ref name="Bradley-Aug2020" /> a scientist<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" />
* [[Denzil Smith]] as Sanjay Singh,<ref name="Levine-Aug2020" /> a weapons dealer and Priya's husband<ref name="Lodge-Aug2020" /><ref name="Firstpost-Sep2019" />
* [[Martin Donovan]] as Victor,<ref name="Bradley-Aug2020" /> the Protagonist's CIA boss<ref name="Fletcher-Aug2020" />
* [[Fiona Dourif]] as Wheeler, leader of Blue Team<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
* [[Yuri Kolokolnikov]] as a henchman<ref name="Gallagher-Aug2020" />
}}
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== Production ==
In London, Priya attempts to kill Kat to tie up a [[loose end]]. The Protagonist kills Priya instead, and implies that a future version of himself will be the mastermind behind the secret organization's actions during the events of the film.
=== Pre-production ===
Writer and director [[Christopher Nolan]] conceived the ideas behind ''Tenet'' over the course of twenty years,<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> but remarked "I've been working on this iteration of the script for about six or seven years".<ref name="Collis" /> The title is a [[palindrome]], reading the same backwards as forwards.<ref name="Shone-May2020" /> Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the [[Spy fiction|spy genre]] other than his own memory.<ref name="MaytumShepherd-May2020-B" /> Spaghetti Western ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' (1968) inspired the screenwriting.<ref name="Maytum-Jun2020" /> Special effects supervisor [[Scott R. Fisher]] watched [[World War II]] movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.<ref name="Martin-Aug2020" /> Theoretical physicist [[Kip Thorne]], who worked with Nolan on ''[[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]]'' (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.<ref name="Maddox-Aug2020" />


== Cast ==
== Cast ==

Revision as of 10:17, 30 August 2020

Tenet
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristopher Nolan
Written byChristopher Nolan
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema
Edited byJennifer Lame
Music byLudwig Göransson
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • August 26, 2020 (2020-08-26) (United Kingdom)
  • September 3, 2020 (2020-09-03) (United States)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$200–225 million[2]
Box office$718,105[3]

Tenet is a 2020 spy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The plot follows a secret agent who must manipulate time in order to prevent World War III.

Nolan took more than five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for over a decade. Casting began in March 2019, and principal photography took place in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and United States, starting in May 2019. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot on 70 mm and IMAX.

Delayed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet premiered in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 3, 2020, in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm. The film received positive reviews from critics, who favorably compared it to Nolan's Inception and praised the cast's performances, though some lamented the confusing plot and impassive tone.


Plot

The Protagonist, a CIA agent under the gise of Ukrainian policeman, participates in an undercover Russian operation to steal an unidentified object during a terrorist siege on an opera in Kyiv. After retrieving the object, the Protagonist sends part of his team out through a secret exit with it. Soon after, the Protagonist is saved by a masked gunman with a red string on his backpack. The Protagonist rejoins the Russians, who realize that they have been tricked and torture him. He bites on a suicide pill before revealing any information.

Upon waking, the Protagonist learns that the pill had been fake and that the Russians have caught and killed all of his team members, and taken the unidentified object. He is recruited into a secret organization, given only the word "tenet" and a cross-fingered gesture. The Protagonist visits a facility where he learns that in the future, technology has been developed that allows objects to have their entropy reversed and move backward through time, and that inverted bullets, capable of dealing more devastating damage than regular bullets, are being brought back from the future and sold on the black market. The Protagonist recruits Neil, and tracking the manufacturing origin of the reversed bullets, they infiltrate the compound of an arms dealer, Priya. She tells the Protagonist that the bullets had been normal when she had sold them and that a man named Andrei Sator, who can communicate with the future, had reversed them.

To reach Sator, the Protagonist approaches Sator's wife Kat. She tells the Protagonist that Sator has her under his control, due to a forged painting that she sold to Sator. The Protagonist tries to win her trust by stealing the painting from where Sator has stored it, a free port in Oslo Airport. During the operation, which involves a plane crashing into the storage facility, the Protagonist and Neil are attacked by two masked men, who Priya later explains was, in fact, one person. The Protagonist returns to Kat, telling her that the forged painting has been taken care of. Kat arranges for the Protagonist to attend a dinner, where Sator threatens to kill the Protagonist for being involved with Kat. The Protagonist offers to steal the plutonium that Sator has been seeking, in exchange for Kat's freedom. Sator agrees.

The Protagonist and Neil attempt to steal the plutonium from an armoured car in transport. After the plan is interrupted by an inverted car, the Protagonist is forced by Sator, holding Kat hostage, to hand over the case. However, he realizes that it is not plutonium, but an unidentified object similar to the one that he had seen at the opera siege. Sator and his men undertake a 'temporal pincer movement', in which half of his men move forward in time and the other half backward in time, each with knowledge gained from the other half of the team.

With the unidentified object in his possession, Sator inverts himself and disappears, shooting and severely wounding Kat with an inverted bullet. Seeing the plan go south, Neil calls in special forces to handle the situation with a temporal pincer movement of their own. The Protagonist goes after Sator, inverting himself and becoming the driver of the car that disrupted the heist initially. The car crashes, and Sator sets the wreckage on fire. Due to the energy inversion, the car frosts over instead of burning, and Neil is able to rescue the Protagonist, who suffers only minor hypothermia.

Sator square, providing the film title, location of opening sequence (Kyiv Opera), and character or firm names (A. Sator; Arepo the Goya forger; and Rotas Security in Oslo Freeport).[4]

In order to ensure Kat heals properly from her wound, the Protagonist and Neil spend a week remaining in inverted time, planning to use the machine in Oslo Airport to un-invert. Donning masked riot armour, the two infiltrate the airport, using the plane crash as a distraction. In the process, the Protagonist realises that the masked man they encountered earlier was actually his own inverted future self. The two manage to un-invert and bring Kat into the forward timeline.

Kat reveals that Sator is dying from inoperable cancer and has turned omnicidal, believing that if he is to die, then all humanity should go with him. She explains that the unidentified objects, nine in total, are nine parts of a yet-to-be-discovered algorithm, capable of inverting the entire world, which was sent back to the past by its inventor in an attempt to prevent it from ever being used. The people in the future who are helping Sator believe that reversing entropy will reverse climate change and make the Earth habitable for them. The Protagonist questions the logic of future humans killing their own ancestors and threatening their own existence. Neil responds that the future people are facing extinction, and may have no recourse but to try.

With all nine pieces of the algorithm, Sator travels to a time in the past when he was most happy with his wife, where he plans to die peacefully and activate the algorithm with a dead man's switch. To stop him, the Protagonist and Neil participate in a temporal pincer attack on a Soviet closed city where the nine pieces of the algorithm are stored. Kat correctly deduces where Sator has gone and travels to that time to prevent him from killing himself before the algorithm can be retrieved.

The Protagonist enters a tunnel and approaches the room where the algorithm is stored. He encounters a locked gate and notices the corpse of a masked man with a red string on his backpack on the other side of the gate. One of Sator's men shoots a gun at the Protagonist, when suddenly, the corpse springs back to life, takes the bullet, unlocks the gate, and reverses out of the tunnel. Kat kills Sator, and the Protagonist and Neil retrieve the algorithm in time. As they part ways, the Protagonist notices that Neil has a red string on his backpack. Neil reveals that the Protagonist had recruited him in the future and reminisces about their long friendship, before departing. In London, the Protagonist protects Kat from being killed by Priya and implies that in the future he will go on to be the founder and leader of the Tenet organisation.

Cast

Production

Pre-production

Writer and director Christopher Nolan conceived the ideas behind Tenet over the course of twenty years,[19] but remarked "I've been working on this iteration of the script for about six or seven years".[10] The title is a palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards.[20] Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the spy genre other than his own memory.[21] Spaghetti Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) inspired the screenwriting.[19] Special effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher watched World War II movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.[22] Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.[23]

Cast

Production

Pre-production

Writer and director Christopher Nolan conceived the ideas behind Tenet over the course of twenty years,[19] but remarked "I've been working on this iteration of the script for about six or seven years".[10] The title is a palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards.[20] Nolan made a conscious effort to abstain from any influence of the spy genre other than his own memory.[21] Spaghetti Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) inspired the screenwriting.[19] Special effects supervisor Scott R. Fisher watched World War II movies and documentaries to find reference points for realism.[22] Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, who worked with Nolan on Interstellar (2014), was consulted on the subjects of time and quantum physics.[23]

Casting

John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki were cast in March 2019.[24][25] Nolan chose Washington for his performance in BlacKkKlansman (2018).[26] Washington, Pattinson, and Debicki said they were only permitted to read the screenplay while locked in a room.[10][19][27] Washington kept diaries in which he would expand the Protagonist's backstory.[28] Pattinson based his character's mannerisms on those of author Christopher Hitchens.[29] The casting of Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh was announced as filming started.[30] Kapadia's screen test was put together by director Homi Adajania while working on his 2020 film Angrezi Medium.[31] For one day of work, Caine was merely given his pages and had not heard from Nolan since.[32] Himesh Patel joined in August,[33] with Denzil Smith being added that September.[18] Martin Donovan was revealed upon the release of the first trailer.[34] In January 2020, retired ice hockey player Sean Avery made his involvement known.[35] Jack Cutmore-Scott, Rich Ceraulo Ko, Fiona Dourif, and Yuri Kolokolnikov were included in the following months.[36][37][38]

Filming

Principal photography, involving a crew of 250 people,[29] began in May 2019 and took place in seven countries[39] – Denmark, Estonia,[nb 1] India,[nb 2] Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and United States.[42][nb 3] Filming in Estonia happened in June and July, with the Linnahall, Pärnu Highway, and adjacent streets closed to facilitate it.[43][44] Kumu Art Museum doubled as the fictional "Oslo freeport".[45] Tallinn mayor Mihhail Kõlvart expressed concerns about potential disruptions as the original shooting schedule required that the arterial Laagna Road be closed for one month.[46] Production eventually reached a compromise involving temporary road closures and detours.[47][48]

Scenes were shot in Ravello, Italy and Hampstead, England at Cannon Hall late August,[49][50] and on the roof of the Oslo Opera House and at The Thief hotel in Tjuvholmen, Norway, and in Rødbyhavn, Denmark at Nysted Wind Farm early September.[45][51][52] A five-day shoot occurred later that month in Mumbai,[42] where Nolan had traveled in February and April for location scouting.[53] He decided on Breach Candy Hospital, Cafe Mondegar, Colaba Causeway, Colaba Market, Gateway of India, Grant Road, Royal Bombay Yacht Club, and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.[54][55][56][57] A restaurant set named "Chaand" was built near the hotel,[55] but never used, serving only as an alternative.[42] Forty boats were positioned at the Gateway of India, where the crew also rescued a man who had attempted suicide.[58] A stunt where someone jumps off a building was done in Grant Road,[56] and a helicopter was applied for aerial footage of the hospital.[42] They proceeded to Victorville, California soon after, disguising it as Oslo, and worked with more than ninety extras.[19] Instead of using miniatures and visual effects (VFX) for the plane crash sequence, Nolan determined that purchasing a Boeing 747 proved more cost effective.[59] October saw them in a desert outside Palm Springs, where an abandoned city had been constructed and hundreds were clothed in military camouflage uniforms.[10]

Director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema used a combination of 70 mm film and IMAX.[60] He prioritized Panavision lenses that would best accommodate lower light.[22] Segments that concerned "time inversion" were captured both in backward and forward mobility.[61] The windfarm vessel Iceni Revenge was brought into play in Denmark, Estonia, and Italy for a total of three months.[62]

Post-production

See also: Tenet (soundtrack)

Ludwig Göransson composed the score as Nolan's frequent collaborator Hans Zimmer had committed himself to the 2020 film Dune.[63][64] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Göransson recorded musicians at their homes.[10] The Tenet soundtrack contains "The Plan", a song by Travis Scott.[65] Jennifer Lame replaced Nolan's long-time editor Lee Smith, who was occupied with 2019's 1917.[66] DNEG created about 280 VFX shots.[19]

Marketing and release

In August 2019, Warner Bros. debuted a forty-second teaser ahead of Hobbs & Shaw previews.[67] It was attached to Indian showings of Joker in October.[68] The first trailer was published online in December, when a cinema-exclusive prologue played in certain IMAX theaters before Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.[69] The latter was introduced during Indian IMAX screenings of Birds of Prey in February 2020.[70] A TV spot appeared that May,[71] promoted in Fortnite's Party Royale mode.[72] The logo, stylized by Nolan as TENƎꓕ, was altered for this trailer due to its similarity with that of a bicycle parts manufacturer.[73] The final trailer, out in August, featured "The Plan".[74] An exclusive making-of video was uploaded on August 26.[75]

Distributor Warner Bros. Pictures originally scheduled Tenet for a July 17, 2020, release in IMAX, 35 mm, and 70 mm film.[76] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was first delayed to July 31,[77][78] and subsequently August 12.[79] Executives calculated that each postponement cost Warner Bros. between $200,000 and $400,000 in marketing fees.[80] After being held up indefinitely,[81] Warner Bros. arranged the film to be released internationally on August 26 in seventy countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom.[82] Preview screenings commenced in Australia and South Korea on August 22 and 23.[83][84] It will move to select cities in the United States on September 3, gradually expanding in the ensuing weeks.[82] On September 4, it will come out in China.[85]

Reception

Box office

With a production budget between $200–225 million,[2][86] Tenet is Nolan's most expensive original project.[87] IndieWire speculated that the marketing could push the final sum to $300–350 million,[88] though analysts predicted lower advertising costs than usual, owing to inexpensive live sports ads.[89] Observer estimated the film would need to make $450–500 million in order to break even.[90] Nolan is reported to receive twenty percent of the first-dollar gross.[91]

In South Korea, pre-sale tickets sold out all IMAX screenings and weekend previews totaled $717,000 from 590 theaters.[84] Another two days there yielded $1.42 million more from about 2,200 screens. The country's cume after four days came to $4.13 million.[92] According to industry tracking, Tenet is projected to make $25-30 million internationally over its first five days.[93]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Tenet holds an approval rating of 81% based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production."[94] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[95]

Guy Lodge of Variety described Tenet as a "grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle".[6] The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw felt it was both "madly preposterous" and "amazing cinema".[96] Kevin Maher of The Times awarded the film a full five stars, deeming it "a delightfully convoluted masterpiece."[97] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph likened it to Nolan's Inception and praised the "depth, subtlety and wit of Pattinson and Debicki's performances".[9] Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter felt Washington was "dashing but a little dull", but remarked that Debicki's performance "adds a color to Nolan's palette, and [she] has persuasive chemistry with Branagh in their joint portrait of a violent, dysfunctional love-hate relationship." She further concluded that Tenet makes "for a chilly, cerebral film – easy to admire, especially since it's so rich in audacity and originality, but almost impossible to love, lacking as it is in a certain humanity."[98] Mike McCahill of IndieWire noted that it was "the summer's most keenly awaited event movie" but gave it a "C–" grade and called it "a humorless disappointment."[99] Poor sound mixing on 35 mm movie film "often" rendered dialog inaudible, stated Brian Lloyd of Entertainment.ie; watching the film on Digital Cinema Package files reduced the problem.[100]

Notes

  1. ^ Seven weeks of filming in Estonia came at a cost of €16.5 million;[10][40] Warner Bros. Pictures paid a rebate that was reimbursed at thirty percent.[40]
  2. ^ It took one week to secure the permission to shoot in Mumbai.[41] The planned schedule was completed in half the time.[42]
  3. ^ Tenet went under the working title Merry Go Round.[19][41]

References

  1. ^ "TENET (2020)". British Board of Film Classification. August 16, 2020. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
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