Debuting in theaters nationwide this coming week is the highly anticipated espionage thriller from director Christopher Nolan: Tenet. Delayed from its original release on July 17th, Tenet will begin its domestic roll-out this Tuesday, September 3rd as part of an “Early Access” screening program. The action flick has already begun its time in cinemas overseas, generating buzz and interest that will sweep over to the US next week. Out of Nolan’s portfolio of twelve directorial achievements, including featured hits like The Dark Knight Trilogy and the Academy Award-winning Dunkirk, Tenet fits snugly with the filmmaker’s previous work.
Upon viewing the three trailers from distributor Warner Bros. Pictures, fans will make quick comparisons to Nolan’s sci-fi genre pieces Inception and Interstellar, films that took on metaphysical concepts like dreams, space, and time and embossed them with a heavy dose of the grandeur that cinema entails. Tenet is also receiving the usual acclaim that Nolan’s fare garners if only on a smaller scale. Indeed, the production boasts an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 69 score on Metacritic. Compared to Inception’s and Interstellar’s tying 74 on Metacritic, Tenet has not been received quite as well as Nolan’s past blockbuster titles, but regardless, journalists who were lucky enough to see an early screening of the production raved about the jaw-dropping technical feats and ambitious, daunting storytelling. Rotten Tomatoes claims a critical consensus for the film as “A visually dazzling puzzle for film lovers to unlock, Tenet serves up all the cerebral spectacle audiences expect from a Christopher Nolan production.”
John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.”
Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time.
Not time travel. Inversion.
Tenet Hits Theaters This Monday, September 3rd in Early Access Showings and Thursday, September 4th in its Full Domestic Release.
