Inception (2010)

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The critical reception for Christopher Nolan's latest everyman "masterpiece" seems excessively effusive given the film's problems -- notably its lack of subtlety. Nothing is ever left for the audience to infer, not even the surprise/twist ending, which had been not just hinted at, but explained in detail not fifteen minutes earlier.

It's slick and enjoyable, and judging it a superior version of The Matrix seems fair: the same sort of light-weight philosophy, coated in chocolaty action/adventure/explosions so it goes down easy. Ultimately it fails in the same way; there is less there, not more, than meets the eye.

- Sam - 2010-07-27 05:10:34