Impressive in some ways but.....

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2010)

..hugely overrated, underneath all the fx, cgi, noise and hand-held camera and despite the convoluted storyline, the film is nothing more than standard Hollywood fare. The troubled hero with a past history of marital problems (yawn)...you just know for certain as soon as you see his two kids that the ending will see him reunited with them..no surprises there then. Far too long and absurdly pretentious at times, I burst out laughing at one point when someone said "Just a minute, whose subconscious are we trying to enter now". Give me a break (and a story that has a narrative I can follow). Trying to convey the world of dreams in movies is always destined to fail. Dreams are highly personal experiences. Ever tried telling someone what you were dreaming about only to think 'Well it's very hard to explain'? Exactly - dreams don't follow any sort of cohesive narrative rather they are a series of apparently unconnected images and scenarios that appear to make no sense whatsoever.