It's a joke ...

Rating: 2/10 (29 January 2011)

This movie is just disappointing and dreadfully bad. People are victims of the marketing campaign: "this movie is complex, intellectual and multi-layered and if you don't understand it then you are stupid". People don't like to be stupid and having seen that it's written, produced and directed by the same guy who did The Dark Knight they don't think anymore and go to see Inception.
So, I will show you that Mr. Nolans movie is the opposition of "complex and intelligent": SUPERFICIAL. I have at least 6 arguments:
1. The characters are just silhouettes, transparent and shallow. There is no psychological deepness; the protagonists are emotionless objects moved from place to place like chess figures. They don't have any soul. But what marked a movie is his developing of characters. Sure, you try to create something deep with the relationship between DiCaprio and Cotillard but it's just pathetic, amateurish and stereotypic. And then the kids' back that we see so often that it gets on the viewer's nerves.
2. The music by Hans Zimmer is a torture. It's so loud and indifferent that your head is ringing at the end.
3. The dramaturgy is completely neglected. One destruction-scene follows the next; one pursuit-scene follows the next! And the end! What a big disaster: it's like in a video game, in an ego-shooter. It's so stupid. Almost propaganda for war.
4. Then, Nolan will make this movie "intelligent and complex". Do you know M. Nolan that intellectual and deep does not mean emotionless and a confusing plot?
5. Nolans idea to enter in the dream of somebody else is not so bad but the idea is not exhausted. Dreams are imagination, there are no rules, and they are bizarre and strange (Have you ever seen a film by David Lynch Mr. Nolan? That is like a dream.). So what all the guys with guns are doing there? Why are there always skyscrapers or a military base? That's stupid. There is NO IMAGINATION, your dreams are copies of real life and they are even WORSE than reality. The only good thing is the sequence with the train.
6. To select a well actor like Michael Caine for saying two lines is just embarrassing and disrespectful. Mr. Nolan is capable of making great movies (Memento, The Prestige) but this one is very, very poor.
Your movie is not "complex, intelligent and deep" but just superficial and an insult for the reasonably carefully viewer.