The big battle was kinda wack

He inverted back to before the opera siege and then reverted

When you revert after inverting even tho u in the past u no longer need the mask etc

driving on the highway listening to the soundtrack like

Ok am I the only one who thinks Neil is the girl’s son? I don’t know why that was the first thing to pop up in my head

Damn

I actually enjoyed the movie

Nolan still has the same problems though imo. Characters are not fleshed out because he’s plot heavy, sound mixing and not hearing the dialogue and still struggles with action choreography

nah they got a ton of youtube videos on that

About to go to my 2nd seeing.

After all the reading and s*** I done I've done on the internet I feel I have a better understanding

And I won't let the audio bother me so much this time since I see it's a problem for everyone and probably something Nolan wanted I believe. but I'll focus on dialogue as much as possible because my vision of the movie is still perfect.

It's still so f***ing bizarre that Nolan followed up Dunkirk with this.

have a total appreciation for the scene when JDW (the protagonist) goes in the machine.
one room is red and the other is blue.
symbolizing a heart or the "inversion machine". Red in the human body heart diagram are arteries which move forward and deliver oxygen and blood to the rest of the body .... time moves forward

in the blue room JDW goes to time is inverted... hence the veins of a heart diagram where blood travels back to the heart.

Need link to the best YouTube vid explaining wtf happened. I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one who had trouble with the sound. I chalked it up to either being the fault of the theater I was in or maybe just loss of hearing but I’m definitely gonna have to watch again with subtitles

Let me just say seeing this s*** in 70mm was A f***ing 1

So after my 2nd seeing and everything I read in-between I finally f***ing got it and it was wayyyyy better 2nd time around although still audio issues of course and still not understanding some dialogue some s*** you just don't need to get tbh.

Best movie I've seen since Once upon a time in hollywood imo.

Also the 2nd viewing seemed to go by faster.

Can y'all explain what's happening with Sator and the algorithm and the dead-switch? Why did that battle need to happen so quickly if all the bomb does is bury the algorithm? Can't they just dig it up prior to the future people digging it up? lmfao

By blowing up the 9th piece and also removing the algorithm forever, time inversion would never be invented and this would cause such a irreplaceable divergence from their current timeline that it would implode entirely

There’d be no way to ever build that piece again without the algorithm and similarly that piece wouldn’t exist to complete the machine anyway

It’s one of the most fastest paced films ever tbh

Definitely Nolans fastest film honestly

From an editing standpoint, I feel not enough people are realizing just how insane this movie is. Like he literally took the innovative editing established by legends like Tarkovsky or Mann in regards to cross cutting and progressed it something wholly new with that last sequence. Man literally visualized a paradox which is something that has never been done before in cinema.

No doubt one of the best edited films oat. Nolan and Tony Scott are the best editors in the action genre of the last 25 years

Sator wasn't exploding the ninth piece of the algorithm, he's burying the complete algorithm to get digged up by the people he's communicating with in the future. They say this explicitly in the film. I'm confused why people don't just go and dig it up later rather than having a useless race against the clock just for tension.

so... where the torrent at

7/10

No f***ing CGI

Wiki summary says that the explosin will cause the algorithm to get buried in a way, that only the future people will be able to dig it up. I missed that in the film and dont really know if they say how that would work or why it would be impossible for present people to dig it up.

Edit: actually it says "sealed" and not "buried" , so there is probably more than just rocks and dirt that would keep them from freeing it.

And besides.. his name is The Protagonist. That should already tell you that they deliberately avoided backstory/development.

In a way I find it quite poetic that there's little character development as the characters are moving backwards against time, not growing forward with time.

I liked it, the sound was s***ty and the characters were lacking in ...character which definitely was definitely a artistic decision given the concept.

I personally enjoyed the symbolism of the protagonist being recruited due to his willingness to sacrifice himself for the sake of the job and then Neil being willing to sacrifice himself in the end

Come to think about it the entire film is about sacrifice for the greater good

The protagonist and Neil giving their lives in the line of duty
Kat essentially sacrifices her marriage by making herself believe her husband was having an affair.
Sator and some people in the future are essentially screwing over the past for the sake of their own satisfaction

It’s not a bad film but it’s not flawless