Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
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As far as films with hype go, I almost always don't get it. However coming from a HUGE batman fan, this may not have been the case with Christopher Nolan's Sic-Fi fix.
I went into this film loving the cast and knowing that it would look amazing and again being told it was amazing.
It was good.
So let's get the good stuff out of the way, because there IS a lot about this film that could make it great.
First up as I said before the cast are great,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in particular stands out as someone who far surpassed their other work.
Ellen Page also standing her own next to DiCaprio.
Infact the WHOLE cast did a very good job bring the scrip to life and making the Special effects look believable.
This leads me to the FXs..............
IN-****ING-SANE watching a city turn up side down was fun but the real wow, for me, came from the action scenes that took place when the world was spinning around.
Bravo, Nolan and the rest of the team for an amazing looking film.
So why all the back handed hate at the beginning of the review?
Well that comes from my hate of watching the same thing over and over and over again! There is one scene in the film, which has a van falling from a bridge. I swear you see this 100 times throughout the film! The van gets more screen time than any member of the cast save for DiCaprio!
Ok so I may be over exaggerating here but it really got on my nerves.
Nolan has a habit of making films waaaaaaay longer than they need to be. For me that's his downfall, and it wasn't just the van. The fast editing may make it seem like the films moving fast. It isn't. Not one little bit. Clocking in at 2hr 28min, it’s not the longest film, but it isn’t the shortest either. It certainly feels long.
It may seem like I’m just picking at it here but films that are longer than they need to be really wind me up, especially if it could easily been made shorter.
3.5/5
