Think i'd rather watch paint dry....

Rating: 2/10 (30 July 2010)

I did not enjoy this film one bit and its hard to know even where to begin. The plot is confusing to say the least and at no time did I understand anything that was happening. I felt the film was trying too hard to be different and had a certain Matrix feel to it in a bad way, the effects were good but to be perfectly frank I'm well aware of what directors can do with effects in movies these days so I'm not particularly impressed when they start doing elaborate visual effects just for the sake of it. I felt there was no character development at all and spent most of the movie wondering why the characters were doing what they were doing and eventually started to realise that the aim is to keep you on the edge of your seat but to be perfectly honest I wasn't kept on the edge of my seat in any sense and just found it incredibly frustrating. I believe at times the film tries to cash in on everyone's common knowledge of dreams in the way of "oh yeah it is hard to remember my dreams, and there doesn't seem to be a beginning or an end in my dreams, I thought I was the only one" type of situation which the film does to try and make you believe its almost talking directly to you but personally I'm not fooled, yes its a novel concept which I think has given a few a few easily pleased people the wow factor but when the smoke clears I hope the punters realise there are better ways to spend 2hrs and 20 odd minutes or better films to watch. The other frustrating thing about this movie is how complex and hard it is to take in all the information about dreams and your sub -conscious and how all this works when they're trying to get into someone's head, it went massively too deep and for a few split seconds it was a bit thought provoking but that quickly turned into frustration and a slightly stressed feeling because it just raises far to many questions which the film just doesn't, and probably can't answer. To summarise I would say that Chris Nolan did the most amazing job on the Dark Knight but this has really let him down, he has picked a great cast for the film and all are superb actors but couldn't identify with this film one bit and really just couldn't wait for it to end.