Rating:

The reviews on this one were awesome, hailing it as “the next Matrix.” Well, given that I thought most of the Matrix movies sucked, I guess that’s accurate. OK, I’m being somewhat unfair. I saw Inception on a Sunday night and there were a surprising number of people in the theatre, given that the film had been out for over two weeks. So I went in with high hopes.

The premise is decent enough – that our thoughts and dreams are the next battleground for espionage. The special effects were kept under control, the writing was decent, the acting and cast were pretty damn good. So where did Inception go wrong?

For starters – the length. Two and a half hours is a long time to sit through a movie that really isn’t all that fast-paced until near the end. They could have told the story just as well with thirty-minutes less footage. Then there is a lot they…