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Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2010)

This movie has come to the cinemas as THE blockbuster. It is somehow nice to watch and the staff is top notch but, oh, it is such a pity that this is it. The idea behind the plot is old (Freud would have had a lot to say about the director) Trying to connect the idea of multiple levels of subconsciousness with special effects etc to satisfy the today's everyday cineaste's desire for watching a utilisation of whatever is possible with the right equipment makes it an "innovative movie".Considering the exhaustive explanations about how it works and why we need an architect and how we are going to jump to the other level and why the hell killing myself in the second level just does not wake me up but leaves me in the limbo...does anyone of you have to be killed in your dream so that you wake up? Who remembers their dreams in such a detailed way? Who imagines entire cities including pedestrians, traffic, side streets and a weather so awful just because you drank too much water before you went to bed? did anyone of you think while watching the movie, did anyone think: yes, this may really be a dream, and it makes me want to dive into a deep conversation with my neighbour about my existence as a projection of the real me that is actually caught in the third level of last Friday night's dream?
When I watched the movie, the different dream levels simply reminded me of the Hollywood director's desire for pushing as many stories and sceneries and action elements in a movie as possible but yet trying to satisfy his own independent movie director's desire to link the whole thing to a sophisticated and intellectually stimulating plot. But I would imagine (choice of words is twisted I know but it is not my mother tongue!)that dreams can somehow be differentiated from reality, and, except for the dead wife reappearing on every level, they just put some simple hotel lounges and james bond like snow castles onto the screen. And, oh, the characters...Cobb is the only one with a background story. The others seem like extras needed to somehow push a little sense into the storyline. Or needed to point out the senseless subconscious craziness: a dreamscape fully designed and thought through by a prospective architect as a playground for the extractor who seems to end up in the Limbo where he finally finds the 'real projection' of his wife Yes, it may have made people think about what is real, what is just imagination...and those who missed the first introductory part of the movie may have been confused when it came to the dream within the dream within the dream and the roundhouse kick as a wake up call. but it was still these people who left the cinema and said: well I am not sure if I understood everything, but this movie was awesome!! I think a difference to Memento, which I found awesome, is that the world of Inception is just ridiculously overblown of intellectually touched ambition, it is a movie that is superficially insightful but is in fact just not worth it to think about. You try so hard to concentrate and not to fall asleep when it comes to the 53rd level of subconsciousness. And there is no surprising and elucidating moment, that a good movie needs, just a little bit of complexity to catch up with.