Good Fantasy Script in Action-Movie Packaging

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2010)

What a bore, all these fighting, pursuing, exploding sequences in a film that purported to be a descent into dreams and the unconscious mind! The adult moviegoer inevitably says: ENOUGH of such simplistic shortcuts to box office. Hollywood films are not interesting anymore for the general audience AND the thinking viewer. All this said, "Inception" is not a terrible film: it is that hybrid creature, the ambitious potboiler. So the screenplay, the actors, even some special effects (see the weightless sequences towards the end of the movie) are interesting enough to make us sigh at the thought of where a mature treatment of the same subject could have led. On another level, one cannot stop wondering why the film's dreams are so visually banal. Nobody is asking here for another dream sequence painted by Salvador Dali like in the Hitchcock masterpiece, "Spellbound", but it seems absurd that nothing in "Inception" looks even remotely surreal or fantastic (some of the weightless scenes excluded). All in all, another disappointing fantasy that could have been a much more interesting film -- if only it had avoided to include such an embarrassing amount of platitudes.