'Tenet' ending explained: Know the climax of Christopher Nolan's action thriller in detail

Tenet is a sci-fi action thriller drama which is written and directed by Christopher lan. Produced by Emma Thomas, movie stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. movie received positive reviews and has grossed $357 million worldwide. 

At beginning of movie, protagonist meets Clémence Poésy's scientist, who tells him that in future, techlogy is invented that can reverse flow of time. Sator plans to use algorithm to reverse flow of time permanently. This will allow people in future to overwrite past.

Tenet's ending explained

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Neil and Ives' team invert mselves and move back in time to stop Sator and to save Kat’s life. During this time, protagonist is warned that he can’t meet his past self and will be needing a special breathing apparatus as he is inverted and world is t. He is n unable to stop Sator as car he saw earlier was actually his crashed car in his inverted pursuit.

Thus, to give Kat time to heal, duo makes ir way to Oslo, kwing that re is ar of ‘time stile’ machines present at free port. duo is w in past as y have gone through machine, and are moving forward through time rmally. Kat later reveals that Sator is dying due to terminal cancer and that he plans to kill himself on his luxurious yacht when he kws his past is missing.

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protagonist, Neil and Ives set out on a mission to lift algorithm which will be activated and change entropy of world and kill everyone. On or hand, Kat hes to yacht in order to stop Sator from killing himself before duo succeeds. That’s when battle begins where red team is working backwards to explosion and blue team is working forward. With Neil’s help, protagonist and Ives are able to lift algorithm in time and Kat h decided to kill Sator just as y lift algorithm.

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During this time, woman Kat sees jumping off yacht, she realises was actually her future self after she killed future version of Sator. protagonist also realises that Neil is killed when he went backward to help m and once y’ve escaped with algorithm, he tries to persue Neil t to go back. That’s when Neil reveals that he was recruited by Protagonist himself for Tenet. It was all set by Tenet organisation that Neil and ors have been working back towards it and Protagonist has been moving forward to it.

Im Source: A still from Tenet

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