TENET

TENET

Budget: 205 million USD

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

Music by: Ludwig Göransson

The protagonist oversees a clandestine CIA extraction on a day known as "the 14th" when a terrorist siege is being staged at an opera house in Kiev. He is protected from KORD soldiers by an unidentified agent donning a red bauble. After locating an artefact, the protagonist's crew is taken prisoner and subjected to torture. When he wakes up, he discovers that the suicide pill he swallowed was a ruse, a test that only he could pass. A covert group known as "Tenet" recruits him and gives him information about time-traveling items with "inverted" entropy. He tracks them down to Mumbai-based guns dealer Priya Singh with the help of his handler Neil.

Priya says that Andrei Sator, the Russian tycoon who reversed her bullets, is speaking with the future and that she is also a member of Tenet. The counterfeit Goya that Sator bought to threaten her friend Arepo was verified by art appraiser Kat Barton, the estranged spouse of Sator. The Protagonist and Neil attempt to take the Goya from Sator's freeport facility at Oslo Airport in order to enlist Kat's assistance, but are stopped in their tracks by two masked guys who appear on either side of a machine. Priya says that the two guys were the same individual moving in opposing directions through time, and that it was a "turnstile" in Mumbai, a device that inverts entropy. She discloses that Sator compromised his CIA team in Kiev, but KORD obtained the artefact.

Kat introduces the Protagonist to Sator in Italy, unaware that he was unable to take the Goya, and Sator threatens to murder him unless he brings up Kyiv. They work together to intercept the plutonium when he saves Sator's life from Kat's attempt to drown him. While stealing the artefact in Tallinn, the protagonist and Neil are assaulted by an inverted Sator that is taking Kat prisoner. After Kat is saved, the protagonist conceals the artefact. But after being abducted again and sent to another freeport in Tallinn, the inverted Sator questions them about where the artefact is, finally shooting Kat with an inverted bullet. Unaware that he was unable to take the Goya, Kat presents the Protagonist to Commander Ives's SatoTenet forces, but Sator uses a turnstile to get away. They all turn inside out to save Kat's life. In an attempt to recover the artefact, the inverted protagonist drives back to the ambush, but Sator intercepts him and steals it.

In order to un-invert, the protagonist goes back in time to the Oslo freeport, battles his former self, and passes through the turnstile with Neil and a recuperating Kat trailing after. Priya informs him that Sator now possesses all nine components of the "Algorithm" in Oslo. This gadget is required by future adversaries to reverse the entropy of the planet and erase its history. She intended for Sator to obtain the relic in order to uncover the other eight components needed to prepare his death drop. The Protagonist learns from Sir Michael Crosby that it is a nuclear hypocenter that exploded on "the 14th" in Sator's hometown of Stalsk-12.

While returning to "the 14th" on a Tenet ship, Kat discloses that Sator is omnicidal and has terminal cancer. He'll go back to a pleasant time spent with his family on a trip in Vietnam that coincided with "the 14th" and end his life, using a dead man's switch to convey the coordinates of his death to the future. When Kat gets to "the 14th," she pretends to be the Vietnam-era Kat in order to keep Sator alive until the Tenet troops in Stalsk-12 retrieve the Algorithm. To enable the protagonist and Ives to seize the algorithm before to explosion, they employ a "temporal pincer movement" in which both non-inverted and inverted troops launch a diversionary attack. Volkov, one of Sator's soldiers, imprisons them inside the hypocenter. Sator says over the phone from Vietnam that the villains are attempting to flee the impacts of climate change.

Just before the hypocenter explodes and Kat kills Sator, an inverted soldier wearing a red trinket gives his life to allow the protagonist and Ives to escape with the algorithm. The Protagonist notices the red item on Neil's backpack as they disassemble the Algorithm to conceal it. Neil discloses that he has known the future protagonist for a considerable amount of time and that he was once recruited by him. Now he has to go back to the most recent timeline when Neil dies upside-down. With her information, Priya intends to assassinate Kat later. The Protagonist murders Priya first after realising he produced Tenet, then watches as Kat and her kid depart.