A studio throws close to US$200 million at a 10 year old pet project of Chris Nolan, directing his first movie since Batman: The Dark Knight – sounds promising. It gets better when you find out the movie is about extracting and implanting ideas and information during people’s dreams.
I really wanted to love this movie and was even guilty of trying to convince myself throughout the viewing, that this was a great film: it isn’t. The core concept is undeniably fun but the plot becomes all too clever for its own good, weaving a messy, tangled web that becomes progressively more unweaverable. This is a good movie however with wonderful action and is generally well cast with the English actor, Tom Hardy especially watchable as the specialist in impersonating targets within the dream world. The feel of the movie is great, highly stylised with a low-tech vibe that makes it all about the ideas rather than the nuts and bolts.
For this film to have been considered great however, the promising concept had to be seamlessly blended into the plot. It does not do this smoothly enough to justify the masterpiece label that many have given it.
I really wanted to love this movie and was even guilty of trying to convince myself throughout the viewing, that this was a great film: it isn’t. The core concept is undeniably fun but the plot becomes all too clever for its own good, weaving a messy, tangled web that becomes progressively more unweaverable. This is a good movie however with wonderful action and is generally well cast with the English actor, Tom Hardy especially watchable as the specialist in impersonating targets within the dream world. The feel of the movie is great, highly stylised with a low-tech vibe that makes it all about the ideas rather than the nuts and bolts.
For this film to have been considered great however, the promising concept had to be seamlessly blended into the plot. It does not do this smoothly enough to justify the masterpiece label that many have given it.
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