Inception (2010; Rated )

Arend said on Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:38:11 PM
Masterpieces do not have constant exposition dialogs, dumb action scenes on skis, totally random shoot-outs, 1-D characters all the way with typical 1-D motivation and ridiculous, illogical rules and explainations! But blockbusters sometimes do! And I liked the movie!! Though only by suspension of disbelief. But to call this a masterpiece is plain ignorance of the many flaws Inception has! It is outrageous! That coming from a respected critic.

Rafael said on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:28:31 PM
Nolan has already shown he is a master craftsman and born filmmaker, all of his films require something from the audience, not the least Memento. It asks something from the audience, namely for them to think. Most people aren't up for that if you don't want to use your brain go see predators or salt. If you want a challenge watch Inception both popcorn-friendly as devilishly complicated definitely top 3 of the last ten years in my opinion !!

Big Wally said on Saturday, July 31, 2010 10:13:24 AM
It's set in a dream... blah blah blah, WHO CARES!. I don't get it. It is 2.5 hrs of yawn. I walked out.

Tom said on Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:19:24 AM
I just saw Inception & frankly, I was disappointed. I agree w/ a lot of points brought up by Dan Peters re: how much of the execution of the film didn't live up to the potential of the concept. Many of the action scenes are quite routine, which is puzzling considering the effort that went into creating the virtually limitless dream states. In addition, Nolan goes to great pains to convey the "rules" of the game, then completely ignores them when it is convenient to do so. For example, no matter what the level of the dream, a "kick" can awake the participant from the dream state (& it is further explained that the drug used doesn't interfere w/ inner ear function, thus allowing the kick to work, despite the drugs potency.) However, when a character is shot & in danger of being stranded in some sort of dream purgatory (in the event of his death w/in the dream), it doesn't occur to anyone to simply initiate the kick maneuver, thus saving his life. I did like that the ending was open to interpretation, as I imagine Nolan intended. All in all, I think Inception is a good film that doesn't quite deliver on its promise, despite a great concept. To call Inception a "masterpiece", in my opinion, is a huge overstatement.

Steven Freekin said on Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:54:21 PM
This is the best movie I've seen this year and perhaps the decade. Inception absolutely blew my mind the way the 1st and the 2nd Matrix movies did when they arrived in theaters. Although original the film still has references to other syfy and action movies like Blade Runner, The Matrix, James Bond, Mission Impossible, and Nolan's own Memento. This film is absolutely brilliant and should win best picture and director and other awards. This is Nolan's best film so far. I give it an A fucken plus. Thank You.

Dan Peters said on Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:21:45 PM
Liked it a lot -- still thinking about it -- can't wait to see it again, and surely then again... The praises are all to obvious, so let me get to my reservations of why this is not in the league of the Matrix pictures in terms of concept, and not in the league of The Cell in terms of style: the bending of Paris; the exploding market; the train -- all superb...but how FEW these touches surprisingly were --- with such immense (indeed, limitless) potential imaginative landscapes / scenarios/ compositions, we get boring car chases in the rain and boring shootouts -- even the whole snow fortress scene, I mean really, these action sequences were NOT very interesting or exciting...it was the subtext that was always interesting and pulled us along -- the joy of having our minds drop levels with these characters (the realization of What was happening)....as for the spaces in between, the 'details', the 'look', the Execution of these great and profound ideas....well, that gets a B- ....B- imagination in an A-caliber picture in terms of concept. Not to overlook the imagination where it was, but, in this caliber a picture, I was expecting a bit more of originality/interest along the way...something I hadn't really seen before -- like the passages in the Cell or the Matrix where I truly felt on foreign terrain. ...Also, I'm not convinced the internal logic is entirely sound (I know, not the point -- but you know what, Yes it is actually, in a big way)--or, made clear enough to the audience -- in terms of Who was the given architect at each level, what degrees of control each participant had; whose subconscious could/could not creep in; etc. --- further viewings will no doubt enrich these questions and enrich my appreciation for what I really liked about the film ... but sadly I was 'kind of' dissappointed/underwhelmed by the production design, given the unbounded parameters of the story.

Brie said on Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:17:27 PM
I agree with everything Roeper said. Amazing film! Definitely a movie I will be able to watch many times over. Only thing is, Marion Cotillard's character isn't really an "ex-wife." Bit of a misnomer, but I won't explain why (Spoilers!). Great, great movie...I really don't forsee any other film coming out this year beating Inception for Best Picture at the Oscars!

gary said on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:06:46 AM
Visually exciting but completely senseless and could have been better cast. (Ellen Page looks like a high school senior who won a talent contest and got to be in a major Hollywood movie. Ditto Joe Lewitt.)

Jose said on Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:55:05 PM
This film excedded all expectations, how many other films can do that? I'm really torn now between which I think is the best of the year now, Inception, or Toy Story 3?

Dreamer said on Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:31:30 PM
This idea is not as original as is being portrayed in some places, Carlos Castaneda (and others) wrote about dreaming-awake (also known as lucid dreaming) many years ago -- and even introduced the idea of entering a deeper dream state from within the dream (and I can affirm that doing so is indeed possible).

If you like this idea of dreaming from Inception then go get some information on lucid dreaming and actually DO IT. It is entirely possible with some concentration and effort. But don't expect it to be as easy as in the movie, it takes a lot of work but it can also be very rewarding.

Plus there are movies like Dreamscape and Waking Life that explore this idea in different directions.