TENET (4K UHD Review)
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Studio(s)Syncopy/Warner Bros. Pictures (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
Film/Program Grade: B-
John David Washington (
BlacKkKlansman) is the Protagonist, an undercover CIA agent attempting to exfiltrate a blown operative during a terrorist attack on an opera house in Ukraine. He recovers a strange object during the mission, but is captured by Russian mercenaries and tortured. So the Protagonist does the only thing he can; he makes the ultimate sacrifice to protect his team by swallowing a cyanide capsule. He’s thus surprised when he subsequently wakes up on a ship at sea, is told that he’s just passed a test, and is given a new mission with the code word “tenet.” That mission: To prevent someone, somewhere, from somehow destroying literally