The dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.
Another recommended movie.
This is a much more commercial movie than the ones I normally give a thumbs up to. In fact, I’m surprised that this isn’t based on a Korean movie dating back a decade… is it? I can’t find a link to that but I did find a Bollywood remake of Inception that is in the makings.
Anyway. I’m giving it the thumbs up because the acting is good (when they have to act and not just do a stunt), the idea of the plot is excellent (more on this in the thumbs down section), the images are way cool!
Thumbs downs are because: for a lot of the movie they kept revealing some extra detail. I think of that scene in Thank You For Smoking:
Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they’re looking to make.
Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?
Jeff Megall: It’s the final frontier, Nick.
Nick Naylor: But wouldn’t they blow up in an all oxygen environment?
Jeff Megall: Probably. But it’s an easy fix. One line of dialogue. ‘Thank God we invented the… you know, whatever device.’
I’d encourage simplicity, not revelation upon revelation upon revelation.
The other thumbs down is just something I didn’t get. I didn’t really notice a significant time different between the real and dream worlds when the guy was driving the truck; but when he starts falling THEN the shift is really played upon.
And the final thumbs down was because it didn’t seem plausible how synchronized all the “kicks” ended up being; they are all super rushing to get their kick on and they all end up so perfectly. Of course it’s a movie… I just mean, not plausible like in that scene in Mission Impossible where Cruise explodes the helicopter and the explosion sends him onto the train…. yawn…
Overall, definitely a movie to go watch and definitely to watch in the cinema or imax where the eye candy can overpower the neurons.
