Do you like pretentious and plot holes? This is your bag

Rating: 2/10 (31 October 2010)

Dreams are colorless, you can not read in them and you don't dream about dreaming. You might jump from dream to dream and you can live a dream more intensely but you don't dream in a dream. You can not share or enter a dream, it has never been achieved in the least possible way. Lastly if it rains outside you don't obligatory dream about it.
If this was only the protagonists dream and he woke up: You can't find catharsis in a dream, you might wake up feeling uneasy from a nightmare or wake up feeling good from a good dream, but that's it.
If he didn't: If he fell in a coma from the use of those drugs or whatever, he saw strange dreams, so what? He failed, his wife failed to bring him back, no point.
If he did went home and things are what they appear to be the plot holes are abundant:
1. If you can get you hands on the president and CEO of a multinational conglomerate you don't need his secrets to begin with. Those sections are ridiculous, Saito and Fischer should have an army of bodyguards or at least some aids around them at all times. 2. Why Saito hire Cobb? He fail to extract from him. 3. Why don't they know Fischer is trained? That is the only thing they had to make sure and triple check. 4. When they wake up why they are not angry at Coob for lying to them and the danger he put them through? 5. What scum sends a little college girl on a job like this? 6. They plan to stay in the dream for ten years but when cornered they make stuff up, succeed and are out in a day. Why not plan that from the beginning? 7. Inception is easy. Take some random numbers from the victim, put them as combination on a safe that you made, disguise yourself ala mission impossible and voilà. Why doesn't everybody doing it? 8. Fischer is specially trained for just this kind of thing but doesn't have a totem to blow the hole plan apart? 9. Mal jumped from another hotel room, isn't there a paper trail or forensic evidence to that room? Or even a single witness? Being declared sane by three different psychiatrists does not look strange at the polices eyes? 10. If you want to see your children put them on a plane, make a video call, have them send pictures for god sake. 11. The entire rule set of the dreams is illogical in its own context and the time passing between the tree layers makes no sense, nor could it make because of its complexity. It would need an entire book to be attempted at.
Artistically it is shot with skill, it is immersing, the effects are good and I did watched all of it for the cinematography. But pointless is pointless.
Also when movies end this way, meaning with two options for the viewer, either he is still dreaming or he woke up, does not make a good movie or a good ending. Good ending makes open interpretation from many points of view, for characters ultimate motives, for questions of what is done is done for good or ill, etc. Here the characters are evil and they want to destroy thousand of peoples lives(Destroying Fischer company) for money, Cut and dry.
To conclude I want to say that this has nothing to do with dreams. Dreams do not work that way, we all know that. This is a sci-fi movie about how dreams might have worked but even in that context doesn't make sense like I said. Watch but don't take seriously.