Obsolete idea

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2011)

So, it's all a dream.
When in high school, I remember one of our English teachers putting a ban on essays that turn out to be a dream. His argument was that one could just write all sorts of nonsense and take the easy way out by revealing at the end that it was a dream.
Overlong seemingly pointless car chases and gun battles... Plenty of these in re-runs of the A-Team...
All this messing about in the hotel, fighting guards, tying up bodies and moving them around. These guys aren't very creative / resourceful in their dreams, are they? However attractive Marion Cotillard is, the sub plot became very irritating indeed. The grenade launcher should have been used on her early in the dream! As for the end, an easy cop out: it's a dream, folks.
I won't go into the cgi / scenery designs. There was stuff just as good in computer games designed for the Amiga and Atari.
There was great potential, but this movie is a mess.