The Story
A team of dream experts (Dream Warriors anyone?) lead by Dom Cobb(Leonardo Dicaprio), a man tormented and trapped in a cat and mouse game through his subconscious past, travel to the depths of the mind to plant a thought which will cause liquidation of they’re employers rival company. If this inception is completed successfully Cobb will gain freedom in America where he has been accused with the murder of his wife.
The Characters
The complicated premise behind the mechanics of the dream world took the majority of the screen time before the fast paced action started. I didn’t care about the majority of the team, they just felt like they were there to keep the idea behind an inception logical. I wasn’t sold on Dicaprio’s tragic past and found it was focused on too much, distracting from any development of the other characters in the movie.
Effects/Gore
The trailers for this film are misleading. Having such world changing effects in the trailer that barely exist in the movie is setting the viewer up for disappointment to some degree. The logic behind the world kept it from exploring the most creative aspects.
Lasting Appeal
I know I’m going to see hate from this review, but in all honesty this is an action movie that is too complicated for it’s own good. It crawled for too long explaining the logistics of the fiction rather than the characters themselves, than ran at full speed till the credits. Overall forgettable for what could have been a much more entertaining movie.
Final Headcount
I was happy to see this in the theatre, and thought it was worth my 20 bucks. On the other hand though, I’ve seen this all before and in more imaginative ways. Take light doses of Dark City, The Matrix, and Nightmare On Elm Street then mix it with an espionage thriller and you pretty much have Inception. Although the ad campaign was the real Inception, making me believe I was going to see a true masterpiece and that may have been the real downfall of the film. See it in theatres and ignore the DVD, I’m not saying it’s a bad movie, but for this guy once was plenty!
