films seen
11
average score
1.54*
nationality
UK - 52 years old
status
Alive and kicking
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A director with potential, spoiled by big budgets. This has pushed him into dull blockbuster territory. He gets too tangled up in uninteresting narratives and the styling of his films is bland, but there's simply no escaping his work.

Movies


Following

1998 / 69m - UK
Crime
Following poster

Nolan never managed to allocate the extra budget for his following films in any meaningful way.


Tenet

2020 / 150m - USA
Sci-fi, Action
2.0*/5.0*
Tenet poster

It was only a matter of time before Christopher Nolan would do a real time travel flick. He's the king of modern blockbusters and a real sucker for twisty/serious narratives. Tenet is pretty much what I expected it to be, including all the things I don't like about Nolan's films. But coming from him, it's certainly not his worst.

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A secret agent is recruited to prevent a third world war. While he presumes a nuclear threat, our world is actually under attack from the future. They devised a way to give objects negative entropy, effectively letting them go backwards in time. A fun plot device that runs through the remainder of the film.

Nolan is oldskool. It's probably why he's generally revered, but for a contemporary blockbuster director I don't think it's a plus. The action scenes look rather dull, the score feels outdated, the pompous and convoluted story telling slows things down and Tenet doesn't do anything spectacular with the time travel element. Just a mediocre blockbuster, at least the pacing was a better better compared to his other work.

Insomnia

2002 / 118m - USA
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.0*/5.0*
Insomnia poster

Interstellar

2014 / 169m - USA
Sci-fi, Adventure
1.5*/5.0*
Interstellar poster

The Dark Knight Rises

2012 / 164m - USA
Action, Thriller
1.5*/5.0*
The Dark Knight Rises poster

Inception

2010 / 148m - USA
Sci-fi, Action, Thriller, Adventure
1.5*/5.0*
Inception poster

The Prestige

2006 / 130m - USA
Mystery, Thriller
1.5*/5.0*
The Prestige poster

Dunkirk

2017 / 106m - UK
Action, Thriller, War
1.0*/5.0*
Dunkirk poster

Memento

2000 / 113m - USA
Mystery, Thriller
1.0*/5.0*
Memento poster

The Dark Knight

2008 / 152m - USA
Action, Thriller
0.5*/5.0*
The Dark Knight poster

Batman Begins

2005 / 140m - USA
Action, Adventure
0.5*/5.0*
Batman Begins poster