Tenet and New Dune both have the same problem with their fight scenes which is they TELL you some cool sci-fi shit is going on but they fail to really SHOW you.

The reverse bullet gun-fights play out like normal gun-fights, the slow blade fights look like normal sword-fights

— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) April 22, 2022

This bothered me the most about new Dune. With those shields against high-energy kinetic attacks, fighting would look and be totally different. They made nods to it, but didn’t really show how odd that would be. A large failure there. Those shields would change hand-to-hand combat and warfare completely in all sorts of ways.