Dec 2 2010, 07:44 PM
QUOTE(QuickFire @ Nov 28 2010, 07:46 PM)
The thing about Inception is that it swamps the viewer with so much information that the first viewing can be a little confusing, you're constantly thinking about what the characters said 10 seconds ago. It's only with a second or third viewing that you realize the movie is actually... crap. Yes, I've just watched it again, and it has some nice ideas and concepts, but the execution is just painfully mundane and WRONG. The constant yakking is boooring. Yak yak yak. Explain this explain that. All done verbally. Films are about images, especially one with so much potential as this. Nolan makes the mistake of TELLING instead of SHOWING. And when he does attempt to show, he's revealed as incompetent, as evidenced by the goddamn awful last 40 minutes of shit action. You only need to compare this with The Matrix, which explained its ideas with elegance and coolness. None of that here. You want to see images coexisting perfectly with dialogue? Watch a Tarantino movie.
The most pitiful thing is that it really had the potential to be an all-time great. But it's just a bad movie.
Totally agree.The most pitiful thing is that it really had the potential to be an all-time great. But it's just a bad movie.
Too much messy hoohah, too much verbal explanation which should have been revealed by Nolan (via story telling and events) to the viewers, and not through characters talking to each other. Action scenes were all pretty standard stuff, characters were underutilised (Ariadne's architect role was useless once she's in dreamland), acting wise none of the characters really stood out. And to really make Cillian Murphy look bad you'd have to give him a crap role, which is what Nolan did. Watch him in Red Eye and compare the difference.
The lack of focus is also annoying. It's supposed to be a sci-fi thriller yet towards the end it actually digresses towards Cobb's redemption and liberation from his guilt. Everything and everyone else takes a step back, despite the first 1.5 hours of a seemingly brilliant heist feat in a subsconscious world. The ending is even worse, kind of Michael Crichton-like which means it just ends abruptly without much relation/reference to the first 3/4 of the story. What happened to Fischer? Did Saito achieve his true aims? Either Nolan thought they were unimportant, or he decided that the movie is dragging on for too long and suddenly decided to stop.
My favourite part of the movie?
"I bought the airline."
Brilliant.
Ingenious concept, but horrible execution. Which makes films like The Prestige and The Dark Knight stand out even more.
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