Not as good as it seems...

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2010)

The 4th best movie on IMDb??? (I am sure it is because the movie just released and it is rated only by the cast and the rates if the movie :)) Come on the movie was good but nothing special. The true is that the last days I was avalanched from so many good rankings for the movie from friends, face book posts, and movie sites so I was having a lot of expectations. And as always when this happens I convert to a real strict critic of the movie and I am searching for mistakes and logical non-coherence during all the film. Although this movie doesn't appear to host many of them (and if you find some you can easily find out a way in your mind to explain them) -except from the fact that the whole story with the connection dreaming machine seems to be a rough and not so convincing solution to put someone on others dream- as everything was expected in a way that seems to be logical. –Another failed part of the movie is the part that he is organizing the whole "job" just to see his children – why he just don't find a way to send his children to him? But then what will be their future in the awful Europe, uh? I say that Inception is a good movie just because it can keep your interest because of the action the good music accompaniment and the "not-so-impressive after all" effects , in a few words it doesn't get more credits from a good James Bond movie. Also I was disappointed because from the beginning you can easily guess that the first dream is inside another dream and of course you can easily imagine that the whole movie is going to end with the undermine that Leonardo is dreaming (Papakaliatis –Greek director- did this first in his series and it wasn't expected at all :))- I am absolutely giving much more attention to other movies of the same genre like "Prestige" (who could wait that someone kill his elf replicas just to achieve his amazing "magical trick" again and again?. Mind manipulation through dreaming was an outstanding idea with great potential that have been wasted in a cold and not so interested movie which lucks of real imagination and of a good plot. Even Matrix was much better.
And anyway you can invade into the mind and plant new ideas and you use it just for corporation strategic stealing??? And the Japanese guy is also trying to convince you (if we can say that he "tries") that he is organizing the whole operation not for money reasons but also because he wants to keep the healthy competition at the energy section???? Haha even the thieves of the Ocean's eleven seem to have innocent purposes in front of him! So in the end we are with the side of the "bad guy" without any interesting explanations or mitigations.
I don't even want to mention about the spoiled love story between Leonardo, his psychotic wife and his "faceless" children and the part with his professor-father that taught him this precious "mind art" (only for good reasons of course - it is his mistake that he can't control it) and he offers him his innocent little student to help him with his dangerous plan Hmm including the fact that the movie is not even as complicated as they tend to present, maybe 8 is a very high point to rate