Christopher Nolan's latest movie 'Tenet', with a series of heists and a get-the-girl-subplot as its pillars is organized like an intertemporal James-Bond-thriller. It has a clever idea at its core, contains a decent amount of fizzy dialogue, and is often visually stunning, thus basically watchable.
Since its core idea - colliding objects and, last but not least, humans, moving in opposite directions through time - is radically counterintuitive, to put it mildly, I found myself frequently highly skeptical that I even know what's happening on the screen on the most basic physical level, never quite sure whether I'm played for a fool by pseudoscientists or mocked because of my profane inability to engage fully in a genius physicist's thought experiment. Some of the principles of reversed-time-causality presented to the viewer seemed intuitive, many less so. Thus, I felt like being confronted with a 2,5h time-mechanical conundrum that, after the time had passed in my unreversed environment, left me with a slight headache.
Since its core idea - colliding objects and, last but not least, humans, moving in opposite directions through time - is radically counterintuitive, to put it mildly, I found myself frequently highly skeptical that I even know what's happening on the screen on the most basic physical level, never quite sure whether I'm played for a fool by pseudoscientists or mocked because of my profane inability to engage fully in a genius physicist's thought experiment. Some of the principles of reversed-time-causality presented to the viewer seemed intuitive, many less so. Thus, I felt like being confronted with a 2,5h time-mechanical conundrum that, after the time had passed in my unreversed environment, left me with a slight headache.