Tenet (2020)

It is possible that I was not paying enough attention to this film to fully comprehend what exactly the story line entailed in order to comprehend the intricacies of the free flowing narrative. My son kept saying 'like Inception' and I kept looking back blankly. I had trouble following that movie as well, and the shifting time lines did seem to be parallel. The underlying connection seems to be Christopher Nolan, who is the innovator behind both films, and apparently if you pay ver close attention, you can follow this movie. I warn you, the pace is bracing. The movie opens with an attack on a symphony performance in Kiev and barely allows anyone to get oriented. One of the agents sent in to retrieve a high-profile asset during the assault is a man known only as The Protagonist, and he is captured by the enemy, tortured, and takes a cyanide capsule, as he was ordered to do in training. He survives, and his allegiance to the system and his orders leads to a promotion of sorts, a top-secret assignment that involves a new technology that has the potential to literally rewrite human history. It is high energy, fast action, and suffice it to say that Kenneth Brunagh is as capable of being a loathsome bad guy as John David Washington is of playing the hero. When the movie closes, you can almost feel like you get it.