Inception to me is like a burger that still tastes great but where the meat to bun ratio is slightly off. There's too much bun (gunfights, boring generic action scenes) and not enough meat (magic, dreams, mysteries, foreboding, fear, awe).
It also looks great at the beginning (Page's early lessons, the train running through downtown, DiCaprio's dream that Page snuck into) but once you bite into it and have finished it, you realize that it didn't taste as good as it looked.
Like Cliche said, it was a real A to B movie. I wished it had a bit more B to A or it went sideways a bit. I wanted more plot twists. I wanted more mysteries. I wanted more clues. I wanted the dream world to really transform in frightening and existentialist ways, to create some real fear in me. I wanted the world to consume the characters...not that it would just bring up generic thugs with guns to punch and shoot at them every 10 minutes.
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 08-10-2010 at 01:32 AM.
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