Inception Review: Four Bad Movies For the Price of One!!!

In this Inception Review, I’ll tell you why you need not rush to see this movie if in fact you want to bother with it at all.

I was initially excited about Inception because I like almost all of the actors in it.  I enjoy nearly all of Leonardo DiCaprio movies.   We also have Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 500 Days of Summer fame, and Ellen Page, who played Juno, one of my favorite movies.

Though I am not usually wild about movies that are not based in reality, I decided to see Inception because of these actors and the outstanding early reviews (Inception got a 9.2 out of 10 on IMDB from about 100,000 viewers).  Could 100,000 people be wrong?

Yes.

Now, people who loved it-all 100,000 of you–will say, “You just didn’t get it.”  Yes I did.  It took a reasonably clever premise-stealing secrets by entering dreams-and butchered it into senselessness.

The idea of Inception tries to take the “entering dreams” concept to a new level:  putting thoughts into people’s heads.  However, since this can’t be done on a conscious level-the dreamer has to believe the idea is theirs–you apparently have to go 3 levels deep:  a dream within a dream within a dream.

With Inception, that is what you get.  4 movies in one, all of them based on this idea of putting an idea-in this case the break up of a company (so exciting!)-into someone’s head.

For me, the first movie-reality (or was it?)-was interesting at first.  This movie engages us with the idea of entering people’s dreams.  Movie 2 is the dream; movie 3 is the dream within the dream; movie 4 is the dream within the dream within the dream.  Movies 2-4 are mediocre at best.

In today’s economy, 4 movies for the price of one doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

But, in actuality, 4 bad movies is just a waste of time.