Watching this weekend... and yes, my closed caption will be on.
I really liked inception, but for some reason it never holds my attention when I try to re-watch it.
besides the bad dialog mix, I find Tenet very entertaining. I do love Inception, also though. In my mind they are equal, but kinda totally different. Inception focused on the people, and Tenet focused on the plot, like so many older movies used to do before everything went all "Reality TV" people crying about their personal drama focus.
Grab your best buttered movie popcorn, but at the same time DO NOT turn your brain off because you really need to just to FOLLOW the action stuff.
I feel like the tone of the film is most similar to Inception, of all of Nolan's films. You see multiple sequences from different frames of reference, so you'll want to pay close attention to detail.
shareNo.
shareI don't feel it does, because Inception has that deep emotional, cathartic core about forgiveness, grief, guilt, and love. This one, I feel, lacks that emotion. There is an attempt at "love," (I think?) but since the characters barely know each other, it comes off as "I'm a nice person so I don't want others to die, including her" at best.
Interstellar came close to the emotion of Inception, probably the closest so far.
Not even close ...
shareIn my opinion, its better than Inception because this is a film which no body thought of imagining. The most imaginative part of the movie is how objects moving forward in time perceive objects moving backward in time and vice versa. Lot of thought process must have been induced and of very high IQ. The first half of the movie goes forward in time and then the second half moves back in time and its where we try to make sense of it - whatever best we can until second viewing and then further viewings. There are least number of plotholes or almost none by definition of a plot hole. Nolan has not kept loose ends and tried to keep the story tight as possible.
Inception was full of self-proclaimed movie rules some of which were beyond scientific sensibilities. Tenet has very less self-proclaimed movie rules and the story is based on those limited rules.
The minor grudge is the final action sequence which was dull and not well-directed. But even Inception had the same thing (on the snow-level). But the car chase in Tenet was mind-blowing.