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I watched the film twice before writing this. I will tell you, Nolan has literally made this film for multiple viewings (Just like his other films of his. Not surprising). Just like many other such films (Primer for example). For me this was 3.5/5 in first viewing but after second viewing I can easily give this 4/5 but not without flaws. Might be Nolan’s weakest compared to his other films, yet it’s still solid sci fi movie when we study the film in depth and after multiple viewings.  It’s insane how brilliantly you can piece in all of it (Almost. Still some questions are left for us to discuss) in the second viewing as you already know from 1st viewing what exactly is happening and especially what happened in the second half. In the second viewing, More than the central time inversion concept, I could focus more on the plot and how time inversion is added to something that’s like a normal spy movie on a base level. I realised in the second viewing that it’s in “Temporal pincer movement” (Of course TURNSTILE mechanism) concept where the main complexities of the film lies more than just time inversion. Once I could get how it works, almost everything falls into its place. I am not a physicist but whatever I got from it, it seemed to be sticking well to the name of “Physics” considering few others films talked about entropy, grandfather paradox, and all.  But when I talk about negatives, I felt like Nolan spoon feeded us a bit much towards the end. When it comes to ambiguity, this is not his best. “Deliciously complex” are the words I commonly use for Nolan’s film but this couldn’t live up to that as a whole but where Nolan strikes is his usual mastering of such complex concepts and executing in a massive scale. May not be as deliciously complex as his past films, yet he strikes harder in most of the parts and encourages multiple viewings which I am always a fan of. It indeed became kinda case study after second viewing.