Inconsistent

Rating: 2/10 (18 July 2010)

There's a lot to be said in favour of 'Inception' such as great special effects and a new and interesting concept in which to set a film.
However, although Sci-fi demands that probably impossible concepts in real life must be assumed to be able to happen, 'Inception' isn't consistent to these and jumps around and conveniently ignores its own rules.
For example, needing a gravity kick in zero-gravity, Gordon-Levitt comes up with the great idea of using a free-falling lift to bring it about. Hello? There's zero-gravity everywhere - just by blowing the wires on a lift won't send it crashing into the basement.
And, when Di Caprio needs to go and find a fellow traveller in the victim's mind, he does so even when the victim is awake, returning to consciousness from his 'dreamworld' (that is, the victim's 'dreamworld') when consciousness has already been recovered.
And there are many other problems that space forbids me to relate.
If this film was consistent to its own rules, it would have my vote of approval as being an original and compelling film but, unfortunately, there's no point inventing an alternative reality only to ignore the rules you've made and upon which the premise is based.