We bought and watched Inception last night. Bizarre movie, and we couldn't take our eyes off the screen. So much going on, and so many levels. I'll definitely have to watch it again.
I saw it too just two days ago. I was entertained, but I felt it was overdone and for a 2 hour 20 minutes movie it recounted its story in almost feverish haste without really adding much substance. And the end was kind of obvious. I guess it wanted to be a new Matrix 1, not sure it achieved that though I'm sure we'll see those zero gravity effects to death in the next generation of films. Film was a mix of Matrix 1, What Dreams May Come (that 1998 Robin Williams flic where he searches for his suicidal wife in heaven and hell), The Sixth Sense, Emmerich's The 13th Floor etc. And while it tried its darn hardest, not once did it manage to depict the paranoia of the inner self so brilliantly as in Shutter Island. Nolan is no Scorcese.
That said, I felt entertained and the visuals are great. And Leonardo de Caprio is to the disturbed mind what Tom Hanks is to everyman, the perfect foil (with the danger of becoming type-cast in that role).
