Rating of
3/4
If James Bond was dreaming...
Jeremy - wrote on 01/24/11
A film as direct as it is abstract, Inception is the thinking man's blockbuster. A movie that follows people into their dreams, Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller acts much more like an experimentally structured high-tension action flick. In terms of action, few can top this. The shooting is high tension and the complex editing keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat every step of the way. Nolan also expertly melds between genres as he shows the internal struggle of Dicaprio's character, a father's guilt for his children, sci-fi technology, and all out street warfare. The struggle that the film strikes is largely due to the scale it tries to tackle with its "multiple dream layers". While the movie is based largely on the nature of imagination, very little seems to be new in terms of scientific concept (taken from The Matrix), philosophical concept (basic Brain-in-a-Vat theory done in a new style), or action (sequences look like James Bond films). While it was certainly an impressive film with many displays of expert editing and all-around filmmaking. It has definitely been shown to be a crowd pleaser, and critics have loved Nolan's truly inspired style, but Inception had far more potential that it didn't take advantage of.
