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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
Are you frelling kidding me?
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Absolutely not, the movie was disappointingly shallow
for myself. Not that it didn't keep me on the edge of my seat and not that it wasn't a great film, but it was more thriller than thinking man's movie which is what I had hoped it to be. Far too much screen time devoted to silly action chases and huge overdone gunfights where nobody gets shot (unless the plot calls for it) despite being outnumbered and outgunned over and over again. Those always break my sense of immersion, instantly disturb my vicarious enjoyment of any film. The film would have been much better without any gunfights or action movie cliches. Things like that would wake me up from any dream.
I kept hoping for more clues and mysteries, I kept hoping for DiCaprio's madness to keep interrupting it's way into the dreams in fantastic ways (like the train plowing through downtown). I wanted glimpses of his wife and children in his reality to make you really want to take a second look when the moment had already passed. I wanted to walk away from that film confused and thinking about it over and over again. Instead we get the ambiguous trope ending where it's obvious that it could both be reality and a dream but in a very simplistic manner.
This movie is a 10/10 as an action thriller but as a smart movie, it was full of disappointments because of the wasted potential with the material.
Make me a sequel that was Dicaprio's journey and search for Saito through dream limbo. That would be a film I would love. They completely glossed over what could have been the best part. How did he find him? How did he not lose himself? How long in his relative perception did it take?