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Cory Woodroof

Revisiting 5 of the most mind-bending Tenet scenes ahead of its IMAX re-release

Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending sci-fi epic Tenet will return to IMAX theaters on Friday in 70MM for a limited engagement, making it one of the hot tickets of the winter for cineplexes.

Tenet came out during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning not everyone got a chance to see Nolan’s thrilling action film while it played in theaters.

However, this upcoming week-long engagement should give movie fans a rare opportunity to check out the movie on the biggest screens possible.

In honor of Tenet‘s re-release, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite scenes from Nolan’s film, including a reverse car chase that will leave you breathless and a climactic battle sequence between two strands of time.

Spoilers to follow; some NSFW language and action violence in the clips. 

The opera siege

Tenet started with one of Nolan’s most thrilling set pieces of his career, giving us an introduction to John David Washington’s Protagonist and some of the time-bending mechanics of the story.

The plane crash

Nolan has never been particularly kind to airplanes, but he sure knows how to blow them up and tear them apart as well as any filmmaker that has ever worked. This heist scene featuring a real-life Boeing 747 is a true stunner.

The inversion fight

We really get a chance to see how inversion works in Tenet with this hallway fight between two sides on different brackets of time. The way Nolan films this is just too cool, as it subverts your eyes and expectations of movement and thrills all the same.

The inversion car chase

Take the inversion fight and add cars to it. Just irresistible.

The big final battle

We’re still not really sure how Nolan pulled off the film’s final battle between different inverted factions, but it’s just such a genuinely impressive piece of filmmaking that we’re not sure we ever want to know the secrets.

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