If you dream inside a dream and wake up, you'r still dreaming !

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2010)

The movie is about manipulation of dreams and how it can impact a person's psyche. Caprio, in this movie is a kind of dream terrorist, who as a profession extracts information from people's mind. This is espionage of new times and he has become notoriously popular for this. However, for the last time when he undertakes a job of planting an idea into the mind of an heir to a giant business empire (Cillian Murphy ); things go wrong.
I am disappointed by the script. The movie is conceptually flawed. First of all, how can you dream inside a dream, I mean how one transitions into next level of 'sleepiness'. Even if one could, why the machine used to coordinate the dreams also appears the same in the dream and works also. Why one would age in a dream; I thought in a dream the appearance of oneself is the mental projection of the memory of oneself.
Same genre has been portrayed by "Paprika" beautifully and is much more consistent and meaningful than this version of a dream-control fantasy.
First act was a bit interesting, but the plot goes haywire towards the end; lost in an attempt to incorporate useless actions scenes. Ending was as terrible as one would expect after watching the trifling second act. Trying to give an inconclusive end was a bit pathetic after what has been done to original 'idea'. There was no 'original inspiration' in this movie. By the end of it, I was in level 5.
Certainly a bad one from Nolan. This not nearly as good as "Following" or "Prestige". No surreal element; twisting the city was a fleeting attempt though.
Watchable once and that too would be worthwhile only on a big screen.