A smart movie for dumb people, a dumb movie for smart people

Rating: 2/10 (16 September 2010)

*** This review may contain spoilers ***
May be I expected too much from this movie, which was supposed to "change the way I see things". Well, it did not change anything, and certainly not the way I look at things. May be it changed the way I look at people who think this is the best movie ever made.
It's long, tedious, they go through layers after layers, why, we do not really know. The characters are numerous, flat, (some may argue that this is a dream so they are supposed to be flat), but strangely enough they are quite consistent, they never change, which is not consistent at least with my dreams.
And if you ask people why this movie is so fascinating and "complex", you might end up with the following conversation:
"it can not be explained with words, it's a story about a guy who gather a team to go through different layer of dreams to alter, blah."
"Yes, I got that and?"
"But I can't tell you the whole plot, I might spoil it"
"I saw it, try me."
"Euh, his wife blah blah... about the dream thing, life, death, redemption, there are so many themes in this movie"
"And?"
"Euh, I don't know, you need to think."
"Ah..."
I guess many people confuse complexity and redundancy. These guys just go through layers and layers of dreams, wrapped non-sense pseudo-scientific verbiage. Than he sees his wife again and again, and "kicks" back again and again, fights again bad guys again and again. And what? This is not complex, this is redundant and boring!
Many people mentioned to me that there was a trick at the end of the movie... Actually, the end is a kind of pale copy of Orange Clockwork ending, and you can expect the trick from the beginning. Orange clockwork, the hurt locker, usual suspect, this is how you end a movie, and I did not see it coming from the first 15 minutes of the movie.
In the category "the director tries to drive you crazy", Donnie Darko, Mulholland drive and, if we stick to Nolan universe, Memento gets my vote, not Inception. Or go watch Matrix again, or Dark city, or whatever movie you want to, that lasts less than 2 hours.
Bottom line, I was bored during the projection, and that's one of the worst movie I've ever seen. 2 points because I did not leave (which makes it a better movie than Titanic to me).