Not a perfect as everyone else says.

Rating: 8/10 (20 July 2010)

OK, don't shoot me but, I was not as blown away as everyone else seems to be. Yes fantastic effects, superbly shot, but I did not find the plot compelling. I didn't find Leo interesting or his female side kick. I know the director likes to tell stories backwards (Memento), but we seem to be dropped into the middle of a story which would have made more sense if we could have just gone from the beginning to the end. The only time I felt engaged was in a city scene in the rain where a freight train appears out of nowhere, that made me sit up, but it didn't last. So many elements from so many other films, the heist movies, the dream movies, did anyone mention the Matrix?, even Indiana Jones and his dad. This would have been better with Ewan Macgregor and Scarlet Johansen. Nice cameo from Michael Caine, but what did he teach - Dream Architecture? I don't think the film established this future dream oriented society enough to make it believable. And OK I have to admit it I did fall asleep a couple of times, and at one point think "oh no, 40 minutes still to go!" My marks go for the effects not the story.