Tenet is not a time travel movie. But it is a movie that will play with the concept of time and time “inversion.”
And it looks like a trip.
And it looks B-I-G big.
Watch the new trailer below:
That trailer promises that Tenet will be quite the ride. It looks and feels like a James Bond movie turned on its head and turned up to 11. The action looks bigger than most of what Nolan has done before (A giant plane! Crashing into a building!) and it also looks like it could be Nolan’s most confusing, layered and challenging work yet.
The plot is coming into focus a bit more. Kenneth Branagh plays a Russian bad dude who has the ability to “communicate with the future.” That spells bad news and John David Washington’s character is doing everything in his power to stop it. Everything else story-wise seems murky and confusing, purposefully so. But that’s good, I want to be in the dark about Tenet until opening day.
Speaking of opening day, we don’t really know when that will be. While Nolan and WB have been trying really hard to stick to the July 17 release date, you’ll note that the trailer ends without listing a debut day, giving the studio some wiggle room to move Tenet from July to later in the year. As I said before, it is feeling more and more likely that the movie will be pushed. That is probably the best and safest approach.
Whenever Tenet arrives, you bet your ass people will rush out to see it.