Temporal CIA agents attempt to stop a Russian oligarch from not just ruling or destroying the world, but ending it altogether. This all revolves around the modish-sounding but confused notion of 'inverted entropy', the gist of which is that objects and people can be inverted to travel in the opposite direction in the linear flow of time.
Sadly, Nolan, the doyen of the high-concept thriller, has overreached himself here. He may have remembered to distance himself from asserting that the concept is feasible, but it's crucial that it stays true to its own internal logic, and instead it's used on too many occasions in the film just as a McGuffin to take us from one high-octane scene to the next. As always, his ambition has to be applauded, but here the premise takes centre stage to the detriment of also including original settings, characters and some emotional content. Rewatch Inception instead.
5/10
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