Pretentious, dull, confusing, detached and overrated

Rating: 3/10 (17 July 2010)

I suspected that the rave reviews for this movie came from mostly teenage/young boys, and that seems to be the case based on the polls. In fact, this movie is essentially impossible to follow, and worst of all, you won't care about a single character in it--not really, anyway. There is no drama, there are simply empty characters mouthing nonsense about dreams and dreams within dreams. It steals from the Matrix and other movies, and does a far worse job with similar material than those better movies did.
Perhaps the first full hour or more is little more than chat that is full of hot air and psychobabble but that probably a lot of people in the audience don't bother thinking about. Everyone's waiting for the special effects, which do come along, but when they do, you probably won't care what happens or for that matter, even know what is happening. Vans falling from bridges, a snow fortress under attack--why? What? No matter. You'll be led to believe this all Means Something, but it doesn't, and worse, you'll feel nothing too.