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Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2011)

Wow, what a ride. Just saw it for the first time, and even though it felt overly convoluted, the visual effects are pretty interesting as well as the story. It definitely should be on some of the bigger lists of the year for its look into the subject of lucid dreaming and for its original filmmaking. It's a bit hard to wrap your mind around what depths the movie goes for after only one viewing, but I cheated and read the plot on Wikipedia beforehand to know what cues to look for as well as to study where the team in the movie are going next.
The believability of a man so consumed with his look into lucid dreaming and its involvement with his family life and legal status in the United States sounds simple enough on paper, but Nolan really reached ridiculously far out there to make the story twist around on itself, perhaps a little too much. As much as it's praised, I don't really remember the soundtrack at all, and why Nolan needed Hans Zimmer to pair with Johnny Marr I'll never understand. The ending was touching and it mirrored similar films such as What Dreams May Come, which I thought was very weird and coincidental.
Anyways, I enjoyed it. I found it very enjoyable even though most of the parts dragged when it came to DiCaprio's character dealing with his projections of his wife. I found it was convenient the way Elle Page's character would end up finding a way into every aspect of Cobb's life in the first week of meeting the guy, too. So some of this story is lacking logic, but it is sci-fi and should be followed only for as long as the film allows. Overall, 7/10 stars because even if I don't watch it over and over again, I can respect the time put into the story and the technical achievements they made with its filming.