Inception

[williamjm]

Went to see Inception yesterday at the cinema, first time I've been for a few weeks due to the poor selection of films being released recently. I've really liked Christopher Nolan's so far (well, Insomnia was only OK, but the rest were great) so I was looking forward to it. I wouldn't say it is the best of Nolan's films, but it is a good film, and

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[enjai_pearson]

I think with this type of film the plot/world building often has to come at the expense of the characterisation. That said there were a couple of good moments with Cobb and his wife. It's definitely Nolan's smartest film since Memento but Memento's concept was easier to explain allowing more time for characters.
It's a very impressive film but Kick-ass is still my movie of the year - although that's possibly because I had low expectations for Kick-ass that were surpassed and insanely high exprectations for Inception that were merely met.

I don't seem to be able to get spoiler formatting to work so while not explicit, look away now! [spoiler] you could argue the lack of characterisation was intentional [/spoiler]

Feel free to delete if you think that's too spoilery. It's not really due to all the ambiguity of the film.