Inception

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 2011)

I must admit that the first time I saw Inception, I was surprised, it is after all a complex movie, however after repeated views I've realized that even though complex, it is not focused at all.
By now, most of the people reading this review already saw the movie and as the high rating on IMDb reveals, most of the readers liked the movie. And in all honesty the first time or two times I saw it I liked it too, but as I said before repeated views, reveal the incoherent, pretentious, even ridiculous defects of the movie.
The main one (and my biggest complaint) being the ''main plot'' of the movie, completely amoral, simple and without depth nor real development. There is no reason at all for the viewer to root for the main cast, when they are ruining one guy's life just or the sake of helping other to make more money. The ''heroes'' are anti-heroes or just true villains, they are thieves, criminals and the only redeeming quality, that is Cob's (DiCaprio's character) wish to see his children again, is in the end just a dream, an illusion. I don't think that every movie should have a heavy load of morals, however including true redeeming qualities adds depth and layers to the script and the characters, here we have 1 dimensional characters that spit lines of dialog without truly adding something to the plot, just for the sake of making the ''Heist Movie'' more interesting. And one last thing, shame on you mister Nolan for bringing such great actors like Tom Berenger and especially Michael Caine to recite 3 lines in the entire movie, shame on you.
1/10 And that's because I cannot put a 0 on it. Yes the technical aspects of the movie are superb, however not even that saves this movie, unlike Avatar, that the visuals, do carry the whole movie.