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Christopher Nolan’s nuclear apocalypse thriller dazzles and disorients – but can it entice people back to the cinema?
In Christopher Nolan’s latest head-scratcher and surely the summer’s most awaited film, Russian gazillionaire Andrei Stor (Kenneth Branagh) has access to a nuclear weapon that could annihilate the planet. He intends to use it. Fortunately, a mysterious international organisation called Tenet has hired a special agent (BlacKkKlansman’s John David Washington) to stop him.
Washington, or “the Protagonist”, as he is referred to in the credits, is tasked with saving the world. Nolan, on the other hand, is tasked with saving cinema. Films such as The Dark Knight, the centrepiece of his moody, straight-faced Batman trilogy, and the high-concept espionage thriller Inception helped to cement the British writer-director’s reputation as a rare auteur able to infuse the blockbuster with complex ideas. Continue reading...