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Corto [ 8.0 ]
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I liked how shamelessly crazy and entertaining it was. The scenery and the architecture accompanied by Zimmer's scoring were amazing, and for me the real core of the movie. The emotional stuff I really didn't get into - I don't think that the haunting lost love really brought that much to DiCaprio's character, and Cotillard's character felt somehow misplaced thorughout the film.
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DokBrowne [ 9.5 ]
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Heady and mesmerizing. Not flawless, but the gaps in logic didn't annoy me like they did so many others. Perhaps I'm simple-minded, but I was sufficiently wowed by the four-level climax to overlook its inconsistencies (i.e. there being gravity in the snow world, among other nitpicks). I didn't care, I was under its spell. Once again Christopher Nolan has turned in a brainy, overflowing work of triumphant pop art
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jeff_v [ 8.5 ]
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Builds on the ideas in Memento and The Prestige without recycling them. Cast, esp. DiCaprio and Cotillard is aces. Didn't mind (in fact, appreciated) the amount of exposition --it never bogged down the momentum the way it did in the Matrix sequels. A movie that keeps the mind egaged, the pulse racing and the emotions sated.
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Dancing_P [ 8.5 ]
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As is usually the case for original blockbusters of Inception's stature, it was impossible to avoid talk about this movie for a solid month. Movies like Inception bring people together: from the guy who pumps your gas to the boss who pays your ass, everyone saw it and no one could resist talking about it and inevitably causing sessions of hands-over-the-ears from us plebes. Here's the beauty of the thing: no matter how much people talk about it, there's very little they could ruin. Nolan has made a film so dense yet so simple that most everyone understood it but few could explain it properly.
Without being inscrutable or perversely twisted, Nolan has created a tangled mindfuck of a movie that also happens to be a great action flick. Even setting aside the premature cries of Kurbickian genius, you can be sure of one thing: it's a really neat Rubik's Cube of a film. To try and explain the plot would be foolish and a waste of pixels, so here's the one line synopsis: Leonardo diCaprio plays a guy who can get into people's dreams to find information they would not necessarily want to let go of; he and his team must battle midboggling complications this might bring in order to pull off the complicated job they've been hired to do.
Dreams are a particularly thorny subject to handle on film since, as anyone who has ever interacted with another human being will tell you, other people's dreams are possibly the least interesting thing in the world. Nolan avoids that by dialing down the fucked-up imagery typically synonymous to the topic and instead builds a world off skewed perspectives and things that are only slightly off. Great performances and some seriously off-the-wall action sequences (in case, quite literally) add to the cries of genius - but here's where I gotta lay it out. For all of the film's technical and intellectural proficiency, it remains chilly and emotionally barren. Not that the film is emotionless, mind you; Leo trudges through his second dead-wife trauma of 2010 and careens toward an ending that might have been emotionally devastating if it wasn't for the fact that we've just been beaten over the head with the notion that, in this world, any and all emotion could be a trickery same as everything else. It's a movie whose machinations are admirable, but I like to feel something before I go cry genius.
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chapter11 [ 10.0 ]
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Once again, Nolan presents us with a winner---another neatly-constructed, brilliantly-rendered blockbuster, aimed simultaneously for the pulse and the mind. This is why i so appreciate what he does as a director: Nolan's always been primarily concerned with making good movies, be they large-scale superhero ones ("The Dark Knight") or small-scale shoestring noirs ("Following"). Mind-bending, genre-defying, and above all, deeply and wholly satisfying. DiCaprio and Gordon-Levitt continue to turn in quality work year after year after year, too, and two young actors who grow up immersed in their craft are wonderful (and rare!) creatures indeed.
I was going to give this somewhere in the vicinity of a "9" or an "8", but upon realizing i have no complaints, i intend to take another tactic.
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suminjoo [ 7.0 ]
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Everybody was talking so many good things about this movie so I decided to watch it despite DiCaprio (I don't like him). It was creative and well written. The entire concept was somewhat confusing in the beginning but plainily explained through the movie for me to grasp it. Still, it was too SciFi-ish for me to like it entirely like my other geeky friends. Plus, I didn't like the unclear ending at all, which seems to be the norm thesedays to make sequels.
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| Weighted Rating | : 7.8 |
| No. Ratings | : 9 | |
| No. Reviews | : 6 | |
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