dream within a dream within a dream

Rating: 4/10 (9 November 2014)

I guess there are some drawbacks in having been around when Matrix came out and remembering the revolution it stirred up. Since then i inevitably think about it when a movie tries to tackle the boundaries of reality. In this sense, the best thing about Inception is that it came out more than a decade after Matrix, thus allowing the critical mass of new viewers to grow up and embrace it without much prior knowledge of cinema.
Similar to other Christopher Nolan movies, there is little you can complain about in terms of "fun factor", production qualities or actors' performance. But the problems arise when we descend to a deeper level where "big topics" are supposedly to be discussed. There we encounter a storyline and arguments resembling a background scenario of a superior first-person video game. In fact, when you ponder about it, there is little to Inception apart from visual experience, which is the norm for blockbusters with high ratings on IMDb.