Tenet

Corrected entry: The entire last fight scene broke the physics set up by the entire movie. The inverted team should have been inverted after the battle and then shifted back through time to assist in the battle, being picked up by the regular team's choppers. Instead, they all started at the same time and simply appeared to be going backwards.

Correction: The inverted team was not leaving with Red team. They had already returned for 10 minutes by the time Red team's countdown starts. It's just shown that way (leaving with Red) in the movie for cinematic effects and suspense.

Corrected entry: Kat isn't wearing an oxygen mask in the inverted car scene, so she should have suffocated and died.

Correction: At the time of this event, Kat has not been inverted yet, therefore she doesn't need an oxygen mask.

The car is seemingly an inverted one, driving from the future back in time to the point when/where the non-inverted Kat is put in it, so it makes sense that she wears no mask. The real error in that scene is that the car has no driver (unless we assume it has superpowered self-driving capabilities, which I wouldn't assume). Even if you can put someone non-inverted in the inverted car, while driving in any direction in time, it needs to have a driver.

There is a driver. You see the driver switching cars along with Sator to Mercedes' from Audi where they were with Kat.

Corrected entry: When the guys walk in through the restaurant kitchen to beat the protagonist it is full of working staff, later when Kat leaves and he goes in the kitchen for the fight, the staff is suddenly gone. (00:32:02 - 00:32:28)

Correction: There was plenty of time for bad guys to ask the staff to leave the kitchen before Protagonist walks in.

Continuity mistake: The protagonist, Neil and Kat are in the back of the yellow ambulance in the parking garage. Neil checks on Kat, after that he removes plastic gloves from his hands and throws them into the trash right next to him, 2 cuts later he again crumples a pair of plastic gloves. (01:46:15)

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Suggested correction: People doing procedures change gloves all the time. There is nothing suspicious about using 2 pairs of gloves in 3 minutes.

He was already done with the procedure when he removed the first pair of gloves. He was never shown putting on the second pair.

It's the same scene replayed, a true editing error.

But this scenes are within about 15 seconds of time - so there is no time to put on another pair.

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Fay: All I have for you is a gesture in a combination of a word: Tenet. Use it carefully. It'll open the right doors, but some of the wrong ones, too.
Protagonist: That's all they told you?
Fay: That test you passed. Not everybody does.

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Trivia: The 747 crashing into a building was shot entirely practically, with a retired jumbo jet. Christopher Nolan costed out doing it with miniatures, but realised it would be cheaper (and better) to buy the shell of an old aircraft and really crash it.

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