Using difficult words don't make a good book.

Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2010)

I thought this was a good movie, but I also have to admit that I am a little puzzled by the buzz it generated among movie-goers.
While I've enjoyed most of director Nolan's works, I found this one to be missing something. It did not captivate me as much. For a story about dreams, there's nothing in the movie that felt dream-like or creative to me. It felt mechanical and laborious.
I did not understand the responsibility and work the architect has to do. There were no perplexing mazes in the dreams that I had hoped to see. The character Ellen Page played was only a plot device to lead us into Dicaprio's unresolved issues with the past, nothing more.
Maybe I am not intelligent enough to fully appreciate this movie sure, just as I don't understand some reviewers with their difficult choice of expressions. But to me, some of the best books are for children.
Oh, I think I know what was missing in this movie that I mentioned earlier. While trying hard to make audience wonder and calculate it just loses heart.
Still a good movie but just weak at the joints it seems.