A fancied up but mindless action movie

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2011)

I have given this one star because the high rating this movie had is out of all proportion. There are myriads of far better films with lower scores. Let's get this score down.
I have the impression that this movie started with a script which had a couple of scenes in the middle, and it was then written further to extend it to a beginning and an end. The mystery is why anyone bothered to try to have a coherent script in the first place. Plot? we don't need no stinkin plot. The basic idea of such movies is to show stunning visual and auditory effects, have characters hurtling along, mouthing dialog not meant to be coherent or even perceptible. Show em the technology, wind the characters up and get them moving-fast! Have Whoosh, whoosh, bam, bang sound effects and music to match, get a name star, and advertise the predictable and unchallenging goop as a transcendental experience.
This one was interesting in places because of the visual tricks. Otherwise, I had trouble following it at times, as much because I couldn't care less about what was a dream or reality, whose dream we were in, or why this or that was happening. Explanations of the arbitrary dream rules (excuses to do various things) were the most transparent gobble-de-gook imaginable.
Nothing in here had a dream like quality. The dream excuse was a gimmick to do things like play with gravity, time, etc.
It is just another mindless action movie, just longer and with fancy justification. As such it is not bad-but not good.