Holy crap, I freaking loved Inception. I’ve seen it twice, and I’ll no doubt be seeing it many more times. It is such a well made, superbly crafted film, it totally blew my mind. A definite must-see film. Go, see it now. I’ll wait.
Put simply this is not my kind of film. The movie explores a particular relationship that a man has with a quirky woman, by jumping to different days in the man’s life from the day they first meet to the day he has well and truly gotten over her.
As the movie points out at the very beginning it is not a love story. It is a story of a relationship between two people as told from the perspective of the man, not in a cliched funny kind of way, because the man is not your cliched macho man. The subject matter just failed to interest me because, as I pointed out before, it’s just not my kind of film. For what it is, it was an okay film. It wasn’t a bad film, I just didn’t like it.
Two stars.
I was in two minds coming into the film. On the one hand the trailers make the movie look cheesy, but on the other Stephen Sommers has never let me down. The good news is, Stephen Sommers has not disappointed. Taking what was quite frankly kind of dubious quality source material he managed to turn it into a well paced great fun action movie.
I was never into G.I. Joe as a kid, so I had no specific expectations regarding what needed to be in the film. What really made the movie work was that it had a clear understanding of exactly what it was, and made no pretence about trying to be anything else. Conceptually, G.I. Joe cannot be taken seriously, however the movie is careful not to disintegrate into parody.
In many ways, it was the perfect Hollywood big budget action film. The plot was simple and snappy, moving seamlessly from set piece action scene to set piece action scene, incorporating character development via flashback sequences that take place literally while the characters are travelling between destinations.
I wouldn’t have believed it coming into it, but I think this might be my favourite movie of the year. Four stars.
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