Inception Reviews Mostly Positive
by inception on Jul.29, 2010, under reviews
The “Inception” reviews are in… and mostly positive, despite a few who were less than impressed (maybe they were just confused?). If you’ve got “Inception” on your must-see list, you’re not alone, but are the Inception reviews enough to get your butt in a theater seat?
For the most part, critics have praised “Inception” – despite a running time of almost 2.5 hours and the possibility of needing second viewing to fully understand it – proving that it lives up to the hype of being, you know, a truly original concept (how refreshing!).
Here’s the rundown on some of Inception’s reviews… leave us a comment to let us know what you thought of Inception:
RottenTomatoes.com ranks Inception at 83% on the Tomatometer, with an average rating of 8.1/10.
Metacritic gives Inception a score of 76 (Generally Favorable Reviews), based on 39 critic reviews. 58 users, thus far, have earned Inception a 9.4 out of 10.
Variety, Justin Chang – “If Inception is a metaphysical puzzle, it’s also a metaphorical one: It’s hard not to draw connections between Cobb’s dream-weaving and Nolan’s filmmaking — an activity devoted to constructing a simulacrum of reality, intended to seduce us, mess with our heads and leave a lasting impression. Mission accomplished.”
Empire, Nev Pierce – “With physics-defying, thunderous action, heart-wringing emotion and an astonishing performance from DiCaprio, Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country.”
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert – “Inception does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does.”
Time, Richard Corliss – “Inception is precisely the kind of brainy, ambitious, grand-scale adventure Hollywood should be making more of.”
Rolling Stone, Peter Travers – “In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big. How cool is that?”
Slate, Dana Stevens – “At the end of Inception, I hadn’t lived through the grueling emotional journey Nolan seemed to think I had, but I’d seen a bunch of cool images and admired some technically ambitious feats of filmmaking.”
The New York Times, A.O. Scott – “Though there is a lot to see in Inception, there is nothing that counts as genuine vision. Mr. Nolan’s idea of the mind is too literal, too logical, too rule-bound to allow the full measure of madness — the risk of real confusion, of delirium, of ineffable ambiguity — that this subject requires.”
New York Magazine, David Edelstein – “Inception manages to be clunky and confusing on four separate levels of reality.”
