I wasn't alone in hating this film from its...well, inception

Rating: 1/10 (26 July 2010)

It is unbelievable that this film has received such accolades by reviewers. It is as if the film itself is trying to practise in real life its own concept: planting in the viewer's mind from the inception that it has extraordinary merit. This must be the ultimate film business gambit and possibly the most daring ever tried in film promotion history. Surrounded by mind-numbing images and eleven-dimensional sound you are told a hundred times every minute what a great film you are viewing. Just look at the audience when you go to see it (as I am sure you will): they looked bored and perplexed but have arranged their faces in expressions of seeming appreciation in fear of being thought of as square, to use and old beatnik term. This would be the dullest film I have ever seen, almost anyway, and everyone I spoke to - even strangers - after the showing said that from its INCEPTION they could hardly wait for it to finish. Money has scaled new heights of desperation to be made. Shame on all the actors who contributed to this disgraceful exercise in megalomaniacal money-making!