Visually rich, superb Sci-Fi

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2014)

I was looking forward to watching this after all I'd heard about it, and I wasn't disappointed. The plot line is nice and complex like any good sci fi movie, and that isn't even the best part. The cinematography and screenplay is superb - it's a visually rich and arresting spectacle with dream-scape after dream-scape revealing new aspects of the characters' psyches. And, it has to be said, Leonardo DiCaprio plays the lead brilliantly. He's reserved, ambitious, tortured - a really interesting character.
All in all there's not much wrong with this movie, but I do want to level a couple of small criticisms. I thought the dream within a dream within a dream concept was taken a teeny bit too far - just a teeny bit, but I did feel they could have come up with some more interesting ideas near the end other than just going into yet another dream level. And I also thought that the supporting cast were weak compared to DiCaprio. For those reasons I've shaved my rating down to an 8 out of 10.