![]() By now they know we failed.” (A potential response: “Hey, dude, I’m, like, your partner. After failing in their mission to deceive Saito, Cobb remarks to his teammate Arthur: “We were supposed to deliver Saito’s expansion plans to Cobol Engineering two hours ago. Its actors are talking threadbare ciphers, eager mouthpieces for their director.Įxamples abound. Rarely does anyone shut his or her mouth during the 148 minutes that are Inception. His primary-indeed, practically his only-tool for delivering information to the audience is character dialogue. The great Dom Cobb and his team now must infiltrate a businessperson’s mind in order to plant the seed of an idea, rather than steal one-a nice enough twist, and a fine enough premise for a caper.īut Nolan then fails to dramatize his concepts. Dick): the military developed shared dreaming, which then became a tool for corporate espionage-sure thing. To be sure, some of the concepts in this new one are clever enough (even if they play like weak snatches from Philip K. Christopher Nolan, while presumably a rather likable fellow (he does give work to Michael Caine), is a depressingly artless filmmaker. ![]()
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