Slow, Boring, Silly, Too Long and Completely Pointless

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2010)

After several weeks of hearing praise about Inception from friends, critics, and glowing reviews on IMDb, I finally gave in and took my wife to see it this weekend. I really wanted to love this movie as I am a huge fan of most Sci-Fi and Ellen Page. My wife usually loves Leonardo and Ellen.
We could not have been more disappointed with this train wreck of a movie. We were both bored and ready to leave the theater after the first 45 minutes but stuck it out till the end hoping for something good that never came. We agreed that it was one of the WORST films we have ever seen in our lifetimes.
Yes - we did GET the gist of the convoluted plot, but the dialog and visuals were at times laughable and silly as Christopher Nolan force-fed the audience with course after course of nonsensical explanations of how dreams work, their layers, and the non-specific techniques the poorly defined characters would use for "extraction" and their "inception" caper.
I felt zero attachment to any of the characters in the story and didn't much care about their fate. If you've seen the trailer you've seen ALL of the cool special effects nearly in their entirety. The much-ballyhooed scenes that involve floating people were just ripped-off variations of similar scenes from The Matrix series.
The only explanation I have for the popularity of Inception is my theory that more than 70% of theater audiences fell asleep during the first 10 minutes and dreamed that they saw a good film.
If you want to experience excitement in dreams, just lay down and take a nap. Don't waste your hard-earned cash on this boring mess.