a nightmare of a dream

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2010)

Could this possibly be the same Christopher Nolan that gave us the classic "Dark Knight"? What a letdown! What a sleep inducing, pretentious, rip off this mess was. Even with the obvious attempt by Nolan to instill a sense of sophistication with his use of high Brahman pseudo scientific dialog, it still couldn't save this bow-wow of a film, the script must have been written by somnambulist. If the producers of Inception would have changed all the high brow dialog and spoken plain English it still wouldn't have made any sense. I was almost snoring and in my own dream state of Inception after sitting through what seemed to be the whole first half of the movie, listening to Leonardo Di Caprio keep describing how the whole Inception theory worked, wake me up when it's over! Then when "Cobb" (LDC), goes to his angry Father In Law for assistance he gets a young college student as an assistant, Say Whaaat! The scenes concerning Cobbs dream life with his dead wife (Marion Cotillard) were beside the point and, or better yet there was no point. Those special effects that Cobb shared with his assistant, the college girl, were just unimaginative and boring, buildings folding up and turning upside down, huh? what's the appeal in that? And we keep reading about the new boy wonder replacement for the brilliant Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, are you kidding? This scrawny pencil neck could never walk in Heath Ledgers shoes! Actually none of the actors in this movie instilled any emotion or gave any credibility to their characters, they were syrupy and one-dimensional.
Also the too loud, obnoxious, Wagnerian like, music score was driving me to grind my teeth and wish for drink by the time the movie finally ended, and it was still blasting away as we escaped this torment and hit the exit. No matter how loud, heroic, and operatic the music score it still couldn't save this dog of a movie. Great science fiction movies would be on the level of "Blade Runner, Alien, District 9, Predator, even Avatar, this attempt at that genre fell flat on it's face, it was too long, boring, and narcissistic. I feel more suspense and get more action when fishing, I'm 64 years old and have been watching movies all my life, I can't remember watching a more pretentious, precious, and sleep inducing attempt at a movie. Batman couldn't save this film.