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The film opens with the prologue that has already been released. There is no scene before this.
Terrorists attack an opera house in Kiev and The Protagonist (John David Washington) is sent in to extract an American VIP. Him and his men blend in with the police arriving on the scene. The VIP says he “established contact”. The only sequence now included in the prologue that wasn't previously is a bit where The Protagonist runs, finds the VIPs belongings in the back of the opera house and retrieves a metal object that looks almost like the handle on a vault.
The VIP is swapped out for one of the Protagonist’s men.
The terrorists are planting bombs and when The Protagonist goes to remove one, someone points a gun at his head, who is consequently shot by an inverted bullet. The inverted bullet goes into the gun of someone wearing a masks, who then runs away.
The Protagonist gathers all the bombs, throws them up into the nosebleed section of the opera house and as they explode him and his man who is now posing as the VIP run out back to the van in which they came.
The Ukrainians who they were working under the guise of notice it is not the right man, and they torture The Protagonist and his friend at a train yard. The Protagonist is rendered unconscious with some sort of pill or bullet (unclear).
When he wakes up, Victor (Martin Donovan) greets him, saying ironically “welcome to the afterlife.” He seems to be some sort of CIA director under which The Protagonist operates. Victor explains that the opera house siege was actually the implication of something far more sinister. To get to the bottom of it he gives The Protagonist a codeword “Tenet” and The Protagonist hides out in a wind farm in the Baltic Sea, working out inside by climbing a ladder, doing push-ups etc.
He then goes into an unknown city (somewhere in Scandinavia I think) and meets with Laura, who seems to be a secret scientist investigating inverted objects. She shows The Protagonist how some of them work, bullets, guns etc. and explains that these objects have had their entropy reversed, somewhere in the future, and are moving backwards in time. This is basically all shown in the trailers/tv spots. Laura says they have several remnants of what looks to be a World War 3-like event. She says The Protagonist must get to the bottom of who is manufacturing the bullets and why.
The Protagonist goes to Mumbai, where an arms dealer who might have information on the bullets resides. He requests “an assist” which comes in the form of Neil (Robert Pattinson), a British agent. They infiltrate the building of the arms dealer, take out some guards and The Protagonist holds a gun to the arms dealer’s head, asking him about the bullets. The arms dealer says he won’t tell him, but then his wife Priya (Dimple Kapadia) appears and says she can help. They sit and chat, and she says the bullets are used and dealt by Andrei Sator (Keneth Branagh), a Russian oligarch of whom The Protagonist has some knowledge. Him and Neil leave the same way they came, bungee jumping down the wall.
Now in London, The Protagonist has lunch with Sir Michael Crosby, British Intelligence, who has information on Sator. He explains that Sator has an interest in rare art, and a way to arrange a meeting with him would be to entice him with the fake of a drawing he had already gotten a fake of (sounds confusing and it is, but it isn’t really important anyway). Michael Crosby gives The Protagonist the fake drawing who in turns meets with Sator’s wife Kat (Elizabeth Debicki) at a London auction house. Kat inspects the drawing, sees it is a fake and at dinner together The Protagonist expresses his desire to meet with Sator. She says her husband is an abuser, keeps her under lock and key etc. All she cares about is their son, Max. The Protagonist does not reveal to her who he exactly is but says if he helps her meet with her husband he will free her from Sator’s hold on her. Men who work for Sator and who are guarding Kat show up, and as they take Kat away The Protagonist beats them up in the chef’s kitchen.
Seemingly the next day The Protagonist shows up at Max’s school and meets with Kat again, who gives him more information on her husband’s “dealings”, explaining that he brings imports in through a Freeport in Oslo. The Protagonist and Neil discuss the best way to get into the Freeport. Neil goes on a tour of the Freeport, under the guise of a patron, and the tour guide explains that in the event of a fire, some of the doors unlock, but the air in a certain section where the art etc. is held is sucked out. The doors that will unlock in the event of a lockdown Neil and The Protagonist discuss will give them access to a secure section of the building, where The Protagonist believes whatever Sator is hiding is situated. Neil suggests they crash a 747 into the Freeport, which would result in a lockdown and give them access, whilst simultaneously providing a distraction.
They meet with Mahir, another operative who will drive the plane. While him and couple of men do this, Neil and The Protagonist go into the building and the same tour guide takes them to the storage area. Mahir and his men drop hundreds of bricks of gold out of the plane which seemed to be on there already (some sort of import, possibly Sator’s). The plane crashes into the Freeport and explodes. The Protagonist and Neil lock pick some doors and enter the secure, secure area, where they find a glass wall between a room at the end of which sits two revolving doors, one on each side. Neil asks what the hell happened here. The Protagonist replies “hasn’t happened yet.” A man in a swat uniform (seen from the trailers) appears out of both revolving doors. On Neil’s side, he pushes past Neil and runs off. Neil gives chase. On The Protagonist’s side he engages in a fist fight with The Protagonist. Except all of his move’s are backwards. He’s been inverted. The Protagonist eventually subdues him, but before he can do more the swat guy slides under a roller door and disappears. Neil pulls The Protagonist away and they leave, telling The Protagonist that he dealt with the other guy.
Neil and The Protagonist debrief back in their hotel, confused as to what just happened, but The Protagonist says he trusts Neil enough now, and tells him what’s going on - about inversion etc.
The Protagonist goes back to Mumbai and talks with Priya, who tells him the inversion machine, called a “turnstile” he found has not yet been invented, but in the future it will have been. She says they are “being attacked by the future.” This is another dialogue scene which was difficult to hear, I tried my best but honestly the dialogue mixing in this film was just poor, so I lost a lot of this. I don’t believe this scene was very vital though.
The Protagonist goes to Italy where again he meets with Kat and says he must meet with Sator. He says she should introduce him as some emissary she met at a party. That night they all dine together at a restaurant and The Protagonist meets Sator, who explains he’s going to remove his testicles and stuff them into his throat, which The Protagonist is smarmy about. Just as he is about to be taken away to be killed, he asks Sator “do you like opera” - which saves his life, as Sator was responsible for the who opera siege.
The next morning The Protagonist, Kat and Sator sail on catamarans, where Sator asks what else The Protagonist knows. This bit of dialogue was nigh-impossible to hear, as it wasn’t just poorly mixed but you also had the sound of the raging water they were sailing on over the top of it. Frustrating. Kat cuts Sator’s harness and he falls into the water, but The Protagonist dives in and rescues him.
On Sator’s huge yacht, Kat questions why The Protagonist saved him, who says he needs him to find out more. He tells Kat her husband is “so much more” than just an arms dealer. The Protagonist sits and drinks vodka with Sator, and they talk about plutonium, which is revealed to be Sator’s real interest. I can’t remember who knows this and how, but its revealed through dialogue (again hard to hear) that there will be a convoy travelling through Tallin, Estonia wherein a truck contains plutonium. In their bedroom Sator is about to beat Kat with his belt but she says if she dies The Protagonist will not help him, which stops him.
A chopper lands on the helipad of the yacht and Sator’s men haul off a huge, heavy package. The Protagonist slips through the yacht and while hiding, watches them and Sator unload it. It’s the gold from the 747. A man finds The Protagonist and hits him, then brings him before Sator. Sator does not kill him but is skeptical of The Protagonist, and says he no longer wants his help with securing the plutonium.
In Tallin, The Protagonist and Neil talk about stealing the plutonium first, and ambush the convoy with some help from some other operatives. The Protagonist uses a fire truck, gets on top of it and then blows a hole in the roof of the truck with the plutonium. He goes inside, blows open a door and retrieves an orange case. He gets back into the car Neil is driving and opens it, and sees its the same device that the VIP had in the prologue. He tells Neil he’s seen it before and it’s useless but Neil says that’s what Sator is after, he’s sure of it.
Sator appears in an inverted car, holding Kat hostage. He counts down and The Protagonist throws him the orange case, while a silver car amid the chase flips over and crashes on the road. Sator gets out of the car and into another vehicle while Kat is still in it, and the car keeps moving backwards down the road. (Kat is not inverted.) The Protagonist jumps into her car and pushes his hand down on the brake before it crashes. However, Sator’s men drag him away before he can do anything else.
They sit the protagonist down on one side of the glass wall with two turnstiles at the ends, these bigger than the ones in Oslo. Sator is on the other side, threatening to shoot Kat. When he speaks his words are backwards, but they are then translated by some sort of radio, which recites the words normally to The Protagonist. He says he’s going to shoot Kat unless The Protagonist tells him where he hid the device. He shoots Kat through the stomach. The Protagonist says he hid the device in the glove box of the car him and Neil were in. Before that Sator leaves, another Sator walks in on The Protagonist’s side, hits him and asks for more information before walking through the turnstile, and then appears on the other side and goes on to do the things as just mentioned. Armed ops appear, lead by Ives (Aaron-Taylor Johnson). The ops seem to know a fair amount about inversion technology. The Protagonist wants to save Kat, but as she has been shot with an inverted bullet (possessing radiation) it is a fools errand. Neil suggests if they go through the turnstiles the effects will be inverted and she might live, but it will take a few days for her to fully recover. The Protagonist says they can use the turnstiles in Oslo to invert themselves back to normal again.
Ives, another operative named Wheeler (Fiona Dourif), Neil and The Protagonist take Kat through the turnstiles, and then The Protagonist says he will chase after Sator and stop himself from giving Sator whatever that device is (they still don’t know what it is). He drives in the silver car, now inverted, but crashes, revealing it was himself who crashed before. Sator blows up his car, but as The Protagonist and the car are inverted the effects of the explosion don’t work. When The Protagonist wakes up he, Neil and Kat are in a storage unit on a ship which is going to Oslo Freeport.
When the storage unit stops moving, they look outside and see they are at the Freeport, and as they have been moving back in time they’re here at the exact moment they were crashing the plane into the building. The Protagonist suits up in the swat gear, says he will deal with Sator’s men while Neil takes Kat through the inversion machine (who is still lying down but is pretty much healed by this point). As the three of them move into the hangar where the plane has crashes, a backwards explosion from the plane sends The Protagonist flying through a roller door, where he finds himself, and Neil. We see that he was the swat guy The Protagonist was previously fighting. They fight and he goes through the turnstile, inverting himself back to normal. Neil and Kat have done the same, and they escape in an ambulance.
The Protagonist meets with Priya again, who tells him there is an “Oppenheimer” like scientist in the future who creates an algorithm in which using nine nuclear bombs will be able to invert the entire world. The Protagonist releases that is what these devices are. She says that Sator now possesses all nine of them. She reveals she only gave The Protagonist information so that he would fail in stopping Sator. She says what Sator plans is inevitable. He is the essentially the heir to the notion the future scientist has, of inverting the world back to a better state.
Now on a cargo ship again, headed for Russia, Neil, Kat and The Protagonist talk about their next move. Neil says Sator has a “dead-man switch” which means if he is killed, the algorithm will go into effect and the world will be destroyed. Their plan is for Kat to keep Sator occupied so that he won’t kill himself, while Neil, The Protagonist and Ives with an inverted army will travel to Russia (Eagle Mountain set), to the site where when Sator was a teenager he uncovered an inverted bomb sent by himself. One team, on which is Ives and The Protagonist, will “fail” to dismantle a bomb, meaning if it goes off without the algorithm in place then it’s just a normal bomb and nothing happens. (This part gets really confusing).
The final set-piece is an inverted army and a normal army fighting with Sator’s men, and finding the bomb, causing them to set it off safely, while Kat (avoiding her past self) kills Sator on their boat in Vietnam.
It is revealed at the end that Neil is the guy who travels to the opera house siege and saves The Protagonist in the future.
The Protagonist kills Priya who is about to kill Kat (because she knows about Tenet), and the film ends with Kat and her son walking off happily.
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