High Concept gone wrong.

Rating: 2/10 (19 July 2010)

For an original screenplay it conjures up dreams of other movies. It starts with Ken Watananbe looking like Dustin Hoffman in "Little Big Man". It contains the assault on Blofeld's headquarters from "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Edith Piaf sings to remind us of Marion Cotillard's Oscar win for "La Vie en Rose", before Cotillard turns into Norman Bates' "Psycho" mother.
Ellen Page seemed too young and mumbled her lines. Michael Caine was a distraction in a tea bag role, dipping in here and there. Hans Zimmer wrote a head pounding score that no one could sleep through.
Given a ten hour flight to plant the idea in the subjects mind, it seemed like it took ten hours. The burning question of Leo getting home pales to "are we ever getting out of the theater". The movie suffers from the written, produced and directed by syndrome. It is way too long, way to loud and way too bad.