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Inception (2010)
A fascinating idea of planting (inception) an idea into someone's subconscious state while in deep sleep. And this film takes it to an extra couple of levels by putting such an idea within a dream within a dream within a dream in order to achieve the desired result.
Lots of technobabble of course, along with token fight sequences - which in some regards felt totally detached from the tone of the subject matter. But I did enjoy the convincing sfx, not least the zero-grav corridors and the cityscape folding in on itself.
That said, I came away feeling rather "meh" about the whole thing, purely because of the purpose of the "inception" - all to do with large corporations and monopolies and father/son power struggles etc. There was nothing to really care about at the more basic human level, nothing that really threatened humanity as a whole. So come the end of the film I came away thinking - well what have we learned here, and should I really care?
People have said this is a "complicated" film to follow first time round - but it really isn't! Strip away the technobabble and it's just a ******* offspring of The Matrix meets Memento in concept, with a few default action sequences tacked on for good measure.
The music by Hans Zimmer, is not his best, but is effective in certain places, especially at the end. But really carries little or no weight: doesn't push the story or the audience's feelings along. It's as if the entire production was done in a dream state itself!
A nice idea that never really goes anywhere, and an ending that is marginally saved by a rather predictable sub-plot
3/5
A fascinating idea of planting (inception) an idea into someone's subconscious state while in deep sleep. And this film takes it to an extra couple of levels by putting such an idea within a dream within a dream within a dream in order to achieve the desired result.
Lots of technobabble of course, along with token fight sequences - which in some regards felt totally detached from the tone of the subject matter. But I did enjoy the convincing sfx, not least the zero-grav corridors and the cityscape folding in on itself.
That said, I came away feeling rather "meh" about the whole thing, purely because of the purpose of the "inception" - all to do with large corporations and monopolies and father/son power struggles etc. There was nothing to really care about at the more basic human level, nothing that really threatened humanity as a whole. So come the end of the film I came away thinking - well what have we learned here, and should I really care?
People have said this is a "complicated" film to follow first time round - but it really isn't! Strip away the technobabble and it's just a ******* offspring of The Matrix meets Memento in concept, with a few default action sequences tacked on for good measure.
The music by Hans Zimmer, is not his best, but is effective in certain places, especially at the end. But really carries little or no weight: doesn't push the story or the audience's feelings along. It's as if the entire production was done in a dream state itself!
A nice idea that never really goes anywhere, and an ending that is marginally saved by a rather predictable sub-plot
3/5