Insanely Brilliant? Perfection? Masterpiece? You must be kidding!!!

Rating: 4/10 (5 August 2010)

I must admit, we went to see this in the theater after the massive positive reviews, the high ratings on IMDb, and most of all, the promising concept of the film...
Di Caprio is one of the finest actors. He's got charisma and knows what he's doing and how he's bringing it, but as a 'hero' he doesn't seem to pull it off. I just don't believe him... He's too, I don't know quite how to put it... too soft? His performance was impeccable though, but I think the director wasn't assertive enough to direct him as he should have.
But then again, it's not due to Di Caprio the whole thing was full of flaws.
The main thing that annoyed me most was (again) the overdue of explosions and cgi. Although high quality and nice use of it didn't add any value to the whole thing. On the contrary!!!
Second, there was the inconsistency of things happening. (And not only this one, but let's leave at this) Everything was surrounded by the truck falling into the water and there is what insulted me so much. At the speed the truck was falling it should have hit the water more than five times when things were happening. Every time the scenes were cutting back to the truck they made sure he was going back up instead of going down. Friends of mine said, 'yeah, it was, but don't make such a big fuss out of it'! Well, in fact I do, because that is what was driving the sequences. What did the director think? That we have no brains? Maybe some haven't looking at the comments and ratings, but one couldn't look next to the fact that things were so bluntly thrown at us. OK, you can say 'it's all a dream isn't it?, but still...
And what was it near the end when Di Caprio suddenly wakes up without any explanation. Quite laughable actually because there was more then enough explaining throughout the whole movie. Now this is happening, now that. I mean, come on...
Next time they should take out all the Hollywood sh ite and put some intelligent stuff in. You know, some things that makes our mind buzz.
I only saw one movie once that had what it takes but was left out of the picture due to another one, the matrix. The movie I'm talking about was '13th Floor'!
So, if you have the time and want a good reference to make sure what is wrong with Inception, then watch '13th Floor'!!!
Since everyone is highly overrating this movie, I'm going to 'underrate' it with at least one point.
It gets a 4/10, and believe me, many will say that it is still too much!
So once again, rent '13th Floor' if you want something that'll make you go 'wohow'