Inception

Yeah. Last night even I saw it.

Ok, so I was dragged there by my cousin (ok, so I didn't protest much) and watched it.

So. Beware of spoilers. Here are my thoughts:

The start was intriguing. In medias res and then jumping back a lot in time. I liked it, as it was usually only used in TV shows. I don't remember if it ever was used in movies.

And then... even more intriguing the whole dreaming-extracting thing. The Japanese guy was kinda cute. Over all, the idea and the story was going along nicely, however it lacked substance.

And this was one of the major things in the movie. It lacked the bond you get with characters. We only get to know, briefly, if I might add, the main protagonist, Mr DiCaprio himself. Nobody else. I dunno if anybody else felt like watching a bunch of two-dimensional ideas running around.

Or was that the creators' idea to draw us even more in and make us doubt the whole experience the protagonist had throughout the movie, so it was also just a dream? If so, it failed to entertain, big time. You should always let people get a little bit familiar with the characters, otherwise the watchers just won't enjoy the shit you are trying to pour down their throats. I mean it.

So... Once I realized we are NOT gonna get any background story about any of the characters AND there will be no jokes or even friendly banter, I really stopped enjoying the movie. It felt somehow impersonal and far away. I just couldn't connect. At all. I felt like an outsider, someone, who was watching it all, like a movie. Sounds familiar?

Also, the protagonist's crazy bitch dead wife parading around, whining, bitching, killing people was really, really annoying. Even if it was my dead husband I had loved dearly once I'd shoot him repeatedly in the head as soon as I saw him, the bitch was that annoying. I don't get how they thought creating some whiny, hysterical bitch without any, ANY likable characteristics would move the movie forward. I wanted to shoot, kick, maim and butcher her with a chainsaw every time she showed up and started bitching. No wonder people started leaving the theater in the middle of the movie. Or that the theater was only 1/4 full when the movie started.

What else?

Oh yeah. When Leo started collecting people to do his gig, I was strongly reminded of Ocean's Eleven. Only that movie I enjoyed. They had fun jokes, likable characters you could sympathize with, you knew some of their stories and the whole thing drew you in and it was fun! This shit dragged on for ages!!

Yeah. Level three, with all the snow was simply there to draw out the movie time. I remember telling my cousin: ok, so they are dragging this out, it'll be over soon. 10 minutes later they were still dragging it out. I think about half an hour was just dragging out the whole fucking thing while nothing happened besides showing how everyone was running around like headless chickens.

Then there were a few Matrix elements. When they were falling they were weightless. Kind of a stupid plot twist, but I'm pretty sure they needed shiny effects to blind us to the faults of the movie. There and then I was reminded of Matrix and Trinity's jump. That was original. This was... meh, I can't even use new words to describe how unoriginal and anything but entertaining it was.

So... what was this shit? Take Matrix , scratch out 'the one' and 'fight programs', insert 'thief' and 'plant ideas' and instead of 'artificial reality' use 'dreams' ; and also take Ocean's eleven, change the plot from "get a team to do a gig: rob a casino in Vegas" to "get a team to do a gig: implant a memory into a multimillionaire's brain" and there, you have Inception.

Was it worth watching once? Maybe, but the movie ticket price was way too steep for shit like this. And I would never in a billion years call it original.