With big films like this I tend to weigh different aspects of filmmaking and rate them separately. The final rating is then an average of all scores. I don't know why, but I feel I need to structure this review that way and try to give an accurate analysis. Whenever one of Nolan's films is criticized it tends to veer towards a right wrong discussion. Nolan has a huge fanbase and they are welcome to defend his films, but as a self proclaimed 'Nolan indifferent' I honestly have to say that I haven't enjoyed his latest efforts and often for the same reasons. I will try to write up how the final rating is compiled. My apologies in advance for…

A week ago I wrote a particularly hateful piece on Christopher Nolan's latest abomination, The Dark Knight Rises. Since then I've been thinking hard, perhaps too hard, about why it is that I can't for the life of it enjoy the critically acclaimed “masterpiece” Inception. At the time it came out it was THE thing to talk about, nothing even came close to being as hot as the apparently intellectually stimulating blockbuster that is this movie. I had seen The Prestige, which I just loved, and the two Batman movies when I first saw it, so I was reasonably excited about it, especially because I'm a big fan of the Sci-Fi genre. The problems, however, are many-fold and it is…

I must have seen Inception a dozen times now, and on every single viewing it feels like the first time around. That surely testifies to the genuine brilliance pouring from Christopher Nolan's epic, which I first reviewed on release back in July 2010; that review, for the most part, stands below as I feel the same way about this movie as I did the first time I experienced it. Simply, this is exactly what a modern blockbuster should truly be - innovative, exciting, emotional and with something to say. The success of Nolan's film, and its subsequently populist seeping into pop culture, proves that with the right talent in front of and behind the camera you can create a truly…

Alsof Vrouwe Cinema zich zojuist in hoogsteigen persoon had geopenbaard en ons liet meedeinen op een gelukzalige roes, zo voelden we ons toen we verdwaasd naar buiten dwarrelden na de vertoning van 'Inception'. Onze ogen pasten zich opnieuw aan het zonlicht aan dat door het wolkendek begon te priemen en onze hersenmassa walste nog eventjes mee op het ritme van Hans Zimmers dreigende score. Tijd voor de hamvraag: is Chris Nolans jongste het meesterwerk dat het her en der genoemd wordt? Is het de parel aan de kroon van de zevende kunst? Dat misschien niet. Maar is 'Inception' een blockbuster die al de wetten die doorgaans gangbaar zijn voor generisch zomervertier een ongezien stevige schwung geeft en het blockbustergenre haast…