Inception

This just didn't do it for me. Aside from a few little CGI tricks like the mirrored sky and the anti-gravity, there wasn't anything I haven't seen before.

We don't get to know anything about the characters besides Dicaprio, and all we know about him is his whole struggle with the memory of his dead wife (Didn't like it in Shutter Island, didn't like it here), which is largely uncompelling and seems like a distraction from the main plot, she becomes more of an annoyance with every scene.

The main plot which is, that our protagonists are going to go into dreams of the son of a wealthy businessman so that he'll split up his father's company so the Japanese guy can take it over. Wow, very noble. Let's ruin the life of an innocent man who's father just died! Because you'll get a lot of money!

Oh, and Dicaprio will also get to go home to see his kids. Maybe. Well, that totally makes up for it!

And the dreams themselves have all these pointless rules, and for the limitless potential dreams have they seem to go for the absolute minimum in Inception. Funny how that whole "dream big" and summon whatever weapon you want thing doesn't seem to apply when they actually need it.
And why limit themselves to weapons that actually exist anyway?


As for the whole dream within a dream, it felt like the movie was becoming convoluted for the sake of being convoluted. The thing about "if you die in this dream you go to Limbo" was a laughable attempt at making conflict. Really, why would being in a dream have all these restrictive, stupid rules. It's a dream!

So Fischer gets killed in the 3rd level of his dream and ends up in...Cobb's subconscious? Why? Because we needed a climax scene with his dead wife. Sigh.

But, at least the music was good.