Inception. Worst. Movie. Ever.
I just wasted two hours and twenty-eight minutes of my precious time and 8 euros. I went to the movies and watched Inception.
Inception is a mega-hyped, overrated, predictable, boring piece of utter shit, packed with stereotypical characters, usually good actors at their worst combining the whole experience to the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot. The laughable plot, oozing with pseudo-scientific ‘freudesque’ explanations, brought to you by the actors with a VERY serious look on their faces (The Limbo! Oh my gosh.) is absolutely hilarious, it’s ridcule will be hard to outpeform.
I mean, exactly one sentence in the whole movie makes a feeble attempt to give all this crap a reason (Shameless spoiler: “The military invented a new secret technology to invade people’s dreams and manipulate them” HOW ORIGINAL). And: It stays this cheesy for the whole, seemingly infinite duration of two and half hours full of nonsense, slowly manifesting to the dreadful realization that it gets only worse – ending in a very sequel-friendly open end (Gods forbid).
The visuals aren’t even original. No doubt were they expensive to produce, as well as the bombastic, ground shaking soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, but all this can’t cover up for even five minutes when there is no meaning, no message behind the million-dollar facade (estimated costs: $150 million for the production plus $100 million for marketing). One may argue, its a hollywood feature, it is solely for entertainment.
But I am not entertained by movies, which try to sell footage of Tokyo with a terrific, clear shot of the Tokyo Tower as Kyoto, nor I am entertained by the fact that all ‘creative’, ‘new’ ideas are shamelessly stolen (only in a way, of course) from other films or books and the makers assume the average viewer is a complete idiot with an IQ close to the number of goals Messi scored in the 2010 world cup. But the target audience doesn’t seem to know this, doesn’t seem to care about a coherent plot, but does only consume what the media tries to sell to them as innovative and never-seen-before, breathtaking, you name it.
I’m also appaled by the fact, that renowned actors like Ken Watanabe, Marion Cottilard and Michael Caine deigned to take such underchallenging roles, didn’t they read the script but only signed the contract for the sake of the money? Well, at least Di-Caprio admits he didn’t get the plot at first (source, in German). I’m beginning to lose faith in humanity… I’ve given up on Hollywood already. </ Rant>.
Haha your attempt to be so enlighted from everyone else is laughable!
Yeah your plot summary really summed it up. Sorry you can make a one like premise for ANY movie…
Yes I know there have being many artists etc that have had ideas like this long before Nolan but whether you can accept it or not this was masterfully crafted and thoughtout as a movie.
Lol you given up on Hollywood? Yeam me too this just saved it. It was the first orignal movie in ages that wasn’t a rehash or sequel. So you point of giving up is just stupid in regards to this movie.
We rented this movie tonight. Jesus I’ve seen some terrible movies but this has to take the cake. Was Ellen Page doing heroin or what? Just awful.
Are you serous? Original and new? Have you heard of shutters island or the matrix? Not to mention it’s almost the exact same setup as paprika except paprika was actually creative. Dreams are so mundane in this movie. Who honestly has dreams of normal people talking in a normal location?
Totally agree, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The story is just so weak that one just doesn’t care about any of the characters throughout the movie. Because almost all of the scenes are dreams you don’t care if someone is shot at or dies because you know that all that will happen is that they wake up. I’ve never before watched a movie where I’ve been looking at my watch and waiting for the end.
The ending is so predictable and sudden. When the credits rolled and the lights came on, all I heard from my fellow cinema-goers was “what a load of s***” and “complete b*******”. And the only time I’ve ever heard that before was after Batman and Robin.
you’re an idiot
went to see it today and walked out. i completely agree with you.
I don’t get why directors make this kind of dreck. It can’t just be money. At the end of day you have to live with yourself – even if you’re Christopher Nolan. I mean what is worthwhile about producing movies that go backwards and movies that pretend to go layers deep in dreams etc.? Hasn’t he ever heard of the word gimmick. Doesn’t he know it’s a pejorative? Anyone can sit around barfing up crap like this. Here’s an idea for Nolan: guy has multiple split personalities and you have to guess which one he is but he’s also a Japanese hermaphrodite with a wooden leg who’s invented a speech machine so we can all talk in everybody else’s language. Er so we need a car chase scene and…guns…yeah lots of guns! Hey this is going really well! We need some bad guys who want to steal the speech machine and…a drug-induced spacey scene where everyone levitates and…
STOP! Would Hollywood just please stop all this? I’m starting to feel deep sympathy for actors who spent half their training in jockstraps humming and gurning in improv classes so they can…act in Checkhov? No such luck, they get to play dreamers sharing dreams in dream machine sequences. Uttering sentences with no more than 10 syllables.
And what’s with all this homage stuff? Cotillard (a right French jerk if you ask me – who outed herself and then recanted – subscribing as she does to a deeply offensive 9/11 conspiracy theory) is content to act in a movie that DELIBERATELY uses an Edith Piaf song over and over. This is smart directing? Lazy prat doesn’t even know how crass that makes him look. Doesn’t even twitch with embarrassment. Nobody does. And SHE doesn’t walk out on the film?! I’m wrong. It’s IS about the $$$.
These people can make this puke and live with themselves. That’s the real crime. And they make so much dough they can inflict more and more of this mindless pap on innocent teenage filmgoers who lap it up! It’s getting like the Oscars this year is going to be as bad as the Grammys and that’s saying something. The self congratulation surrounding Inception is going to be truly sick-making. The greatest movie ever? I’d sooner watch reruns of the last season of I Love Lucy with pins being jabbed in my eyes than watch Inception ever again.
Well, I think you all are right.
Good Movie, bad movie, predictable, awesome… same shit. I do not understand why all of you still have hope for hollywood to even make an effort to bring to the public a decent movie. If you guys know this already, why did you even waited more the 60 minutes to get out of the theater, even though you knew the out come?…
No body is perfect.
Me and my wife liked it and we think is to bad they didn’t write the book and sold it before making the movie.
I was one of the smart ones. I wasted only 10 minutes of my time before I took the crap back to Red Box. Good thing it cost only a buck.
I agree it was the worst leonardo dicaprio film ive ever seen and im a huge fan of his! i think its just not his type of film! Some people might not like it but they are suited to do romance films not acting science fiction films! i watched it on dvd last night and i turned it off near the end because it just seems stupit and rediculos. i hope leonardo dicaprio gets a new agent because the one he has now is ruining his career and that takes alot because is a great actor but the films he is in are just ruining his career! I just think DiCaprio has soooooo much talent he needs to get himself into better films because he’s only 36 and his career will go if he keeps doing films like this! sorry to all who like it but thats just my oppinion. i heard he didnt even enjoy the filming but i dunno if thats a rumour or if its true! <3 leonardo dicaprio <3
Yeah, as I said: some actors seemed underchallenged to me and truly sold themselves short, sadly. :/
Well, I was almost over it by now… and they started to sell the Blu-Ray and DVD versions for christmas – which promptly made me rage, again.. =)
Downloaded it. Complete shit. Boring. Just showing off special effects and drags on and on.
WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP!!!!!
I will never watch another dicaprio movie again for as long as I live. I am so pissed by the utter stupidity of this piece of shit I may never watch another fucking movie again period!!!!!
Netflix sucks, Dicaprio Sucks and Michael Caine Sucks ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just caught up with this because the Oscars are coming and it has, what eight nominations. Are any of them deserved? I mean, your average Nintendo DS game–think Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach–has more dreamlike things than any of the dreams in this movie. The only idea was the time thing. Speaking of which. Since it felt like 10 hours but is was only 2 1/2, maybe I dreamt the whole thing. Really. If that’s the single and solitary conceit of your movie, think about making it a little less bloated and bombastic next time.
Terrible film, trying too hard to be “innovative” and “complex”, these films are just made to make utter idiots feel clever. It was kind of funny though, the terrible dialogue and psuedo-freudian-scientific-pre-dream-inner-dream-sunconscious-beach-angry-dead-wife dream sequences were so painfully shit I was cracking up. It’s a poor mans Matrix and I didnt even like that.
I liked it. You have to pay attention to the story to get it – it is after all A MOVIE.
This was a piece of elephant dung. A giant turd. The worst movie ever. All those interspersed chase scenes were TOTALLY pointless. And that music. So stereotypical of a suspense movie. It actually got better the moment the music stopped for a min. or two. The sad part is this could have been a good movie. The concept was there. It was just way too over the top.
I know I’m a little late to the party, but I saw this last night and couldn’t believe how bad it was. I searched for “Inception was crap” and found this site. I had to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. Overacted, predictable, waste of money.