Ending left me feeling cheated

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2015)

This might have Spoilers.
OK, I like this film. It has good dialogue all the way through, a nice pace and lots of strange things occur. The mystery keeps building and building like a puzzle and I like that. Over all I really like the conspiracy idea that Leonardo's character comes up with. This I find fascinating as it does tie in with covert operations that the Americans were doing in mental hospitals after WW2 and the mind control experiments of the Nazis and the Korean military in real history and I'm a sucker for things like that. Love it. For this reason the plot at the beginning is highly plausible and compelling, such as using humans as guinepigs as a part of secret government experiments into trying to control their brains with mind altering chemicals etc. The sad thing is that the ending was clichéd and disappointing and left me cheated and feeling unfulfilled. I cannot believe that the whole film amounts to the 'it was all a dream' 'or it was all in his head' a bit like the characters in The Wizard of Oz or Secret Window or a Beautiful mind. It made the film seem like one big goose chase in the end. There was so much brilliant effort made into making the viewer believe that something really serious was going on but- there wasn't!! Compelling and mysterious film but bad, bad ending.