Filmaking at its most innovative

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2007)

Films are so often fed to us with a large spoon. Producers don't give the public much credit, and watching some films they must think we are retarded. So it's nice to see someone giving us a cinematic challenge. Thank you Christopher Nolan for this unique piece of film making and not considering us as intellectually redundant. The film is by my standards (which are pretty cynical I'm told) a modern masterpiece. Everything about this film is delivered in great detail, from the colour schemes to the cinematography. Nolan gets the structure spot on, if he twists it too much, it becomes wrapped up in so many layers it becomes uninjectable, too little and it becomes pointless and weak. The characters are brilliantly written, even if the dialogue at times is a little pretentious. Pearce and Pantoliano are both excellent and Carie Ann Moss is annoying, which is a shame, but excusable. I would advise anyone who wants to see a truly compelling, unpredictable, thought provoking film to see this, because it is worthy of the top 10 films ever made. And plus, it is far better then The Godfather:Part 2.