not bad but far from masterpiece

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2010)

I did enjoy the movie but raving it as a defining, masterpiece is clearly an overkill. Unlike Matrix, in ten years time nobody will remember it.
The fact that everything is in the dream makes any shooting action soooo insignificant, and even without that the action sequences are sooo cheap and dull (especially "winter shooting" - pure B-class movie nonsense crap.) I was expecting really twisted plot but surprisingly the whole mission is being accomplished without any major surprises and twists. The fact that the mark was somehow trained was the only surprise. We all knew that the dead wife will make a mess at some point of the story but again the mess she did was sooo dull and insignificant.
Anybody who read Philip K. Dick knows how complex and deep it can get when it comes to parallel universes. Compared to any of his books Inception seems insignificant, illogical, one-dimensional, barely touching the possibilities opened by setting the action in parallel universes.
I like the final sequence using the different passage of time in subsequent layers as a vehicle for creating great suspense. The problem is that by that time everything seems so insignificant and diluted.
I was really expecting the unexpected and was so disappointed that nothing really happened. They just did what they were hired for. Half way through the movie they should break out from their initial reality and discover the new layer that would change the meaning of the whole mission, challenge their perception of what reality is...