MOVIE REVIEW - Inception

Leonardo Dicaprio stars in the new thriller, Inception.

When I first saw this trailer for this movie a few months ago, I thought it looked like a typical thriller, that may be a bit of thinking mans movie. Looked like it might be pretty interesting. and after seeing it, I guess parts of it are. But for heavens sake let's make a point, tell a story and move along. That is NOT Inceptions intentions or execution.

Inception is the story of "dream sharing". Techniques developed to probe dreams of others, and sharing your own. They seem real, and there are consequences to peeking into, and participating in other peoples dreams while they sleep. The technique of "inception" is the planting of ideas in someones mind in their dreams while they sleep. The idea is to ultimately change the world by altering processes through dreams.

First, much of this from a movie making standpoint is really great. Some really slick, and at times jaw dropping effects that make you go "whew." The soundtrack is strong and powerful and well written into the production of this movie. And the basic story is really an interesting one in it's raw form.

But that's where this movie is going to lose people. Inception is so deep, so complicated, and so hard to follow a times, many patrons simply gave up and threw their hands up at the theater. How can you tell? Numerous people getting up to answer calls, go get drinks, bathroom at about the same time, many times. Lots of questions asked in the audience too. In a nutshell, I think many just became bored with having to follow every single word, and nuance. At it's end you could see that many were just glad it was over. There's way too much dialogue that moves too fast, and after a while, you're done. This movie simply tries too hard to be......smart.

And belabored? My gosh, this is all entirely, way, way way, too long. Flashback here, forward here, backtracking here. Who is who? It's just boring after while, and you just want something to happen that you can follow. This is a good idea that goes haywire.

If you hear tons of national critics saying how great this move is, beware. Many are going to be afraid to hit this movie in the mouth for fear of looking like they don't understand it. Or that it's Dicaprio so therefore it must be great. I understood it for most part, and I still say it's way too many things that are hard to follow and tedious. At two hours-twenty two minutes of no room for missing one word or be lost, it simply doesn't work.

Inception. This movie will lose many after about 20 minutes for various and different reasons. It's so belabored, it really doesn't work. Good idea, bad Inception execution.