Disappointing

"Disappointing" is a key word in the movie Inception. It's been a few weeks since the movie came out but I won't reveal how it is important; it just is.

Anyway, according to my Facebook feed, this was touted as "mind-blowing," "best movie ever" and so on. So, for the first time in three years, I sat down at a movie theater expecting great things.

I spent the first half of the movie wondering where I'd seen the actress that plays DiCaprio's character's deceased wife. Eventually it came to me. She is Lilly from the French Taxi movie series.

After two and a half hours (more like three hours, because the previews were a good thirty minutes), I left the theater, convinced of an idea: the movie can be summed up in one word. It is "disappointing."

Clearly, the Facebook posts had failed to implant the idea that this was an excellent movie. Or perhaps it is because my expectations were unreasonably high, having read what the internet had said. Because, you know, the internet is always right.

I mean, the movie was not bad at all, and some of the effects were very cool. However, the plot line left more to be desired, and the story was all too predictable. I wanted the movie to have serious plot twists and be so weird that I'd have a difficult time getting my mind around it. As it turns out, the story was very straightforward. This, I suppose, can be a good thing, because sometimes I finish a movie not understanding how the beginning and end were somehow connected in the middle. So in the sense that the script was easy to follow, the movie gets high marks.

I wanted a movie where the last scene changes my preception of the entire movie. I was waiting for an "ohhh, I see what you did there" moment, but sadly, it was not to be.

And why why WHY one would name a French character "Mal" is beyond me.