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Tenet (2020)
Exhausting, Unentertaining
This movie was hailed as brilliant and sophisticated and we're too dumb to get it the first time. I think not.
Except for a few immutable laws of physics, entropy in particular, the subject of temporal distortion management must be an opportunist's panoply of bizarre possibilities, including the glossed over but necessary feature of innate character 'super' ability to invert: attract and repel weapons and what not, everyone can learn in under 30 seconds. An unremarkable concept in context. But which is it - a function of time or innate human ability? Surely something's been violated here. Nevertheless, it's the foundation for the nauseous see-saw ride to follow. At one point, the close up backwards motion of one of the main characters was so poorly acted, if not rendered, that it turned me off the rest of the movie. It proves to be an exhausting and chaotic barrage of aimless action and annoying superimposition and blasts of distracting sound. In quiet moments we're brought back to order (ironically) by the mere mention of entropy again, and the suggestion that the 'algorithm' may be an inadvertent competitor for the role of protagonist. Or is that just me way out there on a tangent?
I wish I felt compelled to tell my past self I was wrong but rather than watch it again, I'll wait for a leading physicist to point out the theoretical faux pas the producer deigned to get away with for the sake of artistic acclaim. Oh well. By the time Tenet 2 arrives, and some cathartic dreams and nightmares pass, viewers won't care about making sense out of the nonsensical.
My advice, if you want to enjoy this movie with minimal fuss, bootstrap the invert premise, keep your finger on the volume button and don't watch any of the action sequences.
Debris (2021)
A few bright moments that never pan out
Writers opted out of writing instead using the 'debris' euphemistically as everything else they should have been developing, plot included. The high emotion from the female lead character who loses it every week is almost as distracting as the weird soundtrack. Neither are sufficient to carry the series. In fact the action is all over the place and never goes anywhere. Too bad because the premise had potential. Very disappointing.
The 100 (2014)
Had Potential - Now Suffers From Dismal Lack of Imagination
I might have kept watching the show out of loyalty to the good start of the first two seasons. Although the plot was weak in many places, the directing saved it from disaster. But season 6 is a nightmare of ridiculous script, theme, directing, and everything else that happens when a series dies a slow, painful death.