So, inception?

A movie that gets so passionate reactions needs to be seen. I got myself to it, and, in the end, it was a pleasant evening.

What's astonishing, then, is that the movie could generate such opposite reactions from "Work of genius!" to "I almost left the cinema in the middle of the film". I found Inception pretty watchable, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. I did not get bored, but the big Hollywood ropes and cliches spoil the pleasure a bit:

- First, and this is probably the most annoying, in addition to be experts in their domain, members of Leonardo's team are all untouchable super heroes who punch and gun all around. I can admit guys escaping from a few gun rounds, but when they can bring down an army, or being showered by bullets in a van for half the film and not get hit once (except Sato, so that we pretend we care about his health), it just feels that the scenarist added some action sequences just to look pretty
- The girl who is the architect understand everything immediately before anyone else, making her more annoying than anything else
- The sequence in the snow has absolutely no value, and is wrong on so many points. All the heroes end up in the central room, when one group had started climbing a cliff before being on the receiving end of an avalanche, the second group chased guys on skis, and the third group arrived in there like magic
- The final scene tries to relaunch the thrill in a completely artificial manner

Nice and dream-like scenery is too rare, and maybe that is the main let-down. Maybe Christopher Nolan does not dream? When I dream, it's of strange places, weird people, scary situations, of being blocked or on the contrary running without ever reaching anything. Things appear and disappear following an absurd logic that should give shivers to any scenarist. Instead, each dream looks pretty much like our world, and the way a level of dream influences the next one is often grotesque.

I applaud nevertheless the desire to make a scenario that's a bit better built, and to try to keep a certain logic all along the movie. The secondary plot around Leo's wife is also well constructed, despite being a bit too much at times.