Wow... I love a great story!

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2010)

I won't waste too much of your time with this one, and I wish Chris Nolan had done me the same courtesy. Please excuse the generalization, but a successful movie typically uses its characters as the engine to pull you into the action and involve you in their lives... their story. As I watched things fall and explode and everyone floated around in their weightless dream dimension, I simply couldn't find a single reason to wonder how things turned out for anyone in the end. Does Cobb make it out on time? Does he stay with Mal in the dream dimension or return to reality? Does he ever see Phillipa and James again? I tried, but I just could not find a reason to care. It should get a single star for the for the terrible story, but I tossed in an extra star for the epic scale and for DiCaprio's acting, which was, as usual, proficient and workmanlike. One small confession: I did actually fall asleep for about twenty minutes somewhere in the middle of the second hour, so it's possible that the twenty minutes I slept through was actually the good part. Save yourself the nightmare of having paid to watch this and wait for it to show up on free cable.