(M)Rated

I went into this thinking it was a documentary but I was pleasantly surprised to find it an entertaining (although sometimes a little melodramatic) retelling of the life of a visionary. Some iffy acting (and accents) from some of the cast but the scenery and vehicles made up for it. There was also plenty of car p*rn for Lamborghini fans although I'd have liked to have seen more from the 80s, especially the story behind the Countach but I guess that has been told many times. I also heard he used salvaged parts from WWII vehicles abandoned by the US military but that's either untrue or left out of this film.

I've been waiting all year to see Tenet and I was lucky enough to see it in our IMAX theatre in Melbourne. The film was full of amazing action and lots of reverse footage trickery but I really felt like there was a lot of unnecessary complexity (and macguffin chasing!) which ended up just making the movie longer. Time paradoxes aside, the one big thing I think the movie was missing is heart. In the days since I saw it I've mulled this over, thinking of the parent/child emotional cores of both Inception and Interstellar and Tenet just comes up hollow. It might be worth a rewatch just for the Easter eggs but I doubt I will look back on this film in years to come with the same fondness as Nolan's others.