10 Movies You Constantly Have To Defend Hating
4. Inception
There are any number of Christopher Nolan films that could go here as no matter how flawed one of his works is, critique will be met with indignant cries that "no really, that's how it's supposed to be and he's just too intellectual a filmmaker for you to understand"! Ugh.
Inception, then. Whilst being packed full of impressive action set-pieces and a resoundingly imaginative central premise, Nolan seems to forget that a film needs to engage on some kind of emotional level, and further forgets that a film needs characters. Throughout the film, the audience is subjected to the increasingly convoluted system of extraction and inception, and the script almost buckles under its own weight attempting to make sense of it all.
As a result, Inception does not contain any conversation. Almost without exception, dialogue scenes bring the film screeching to a halt as characters bend over backwards to explain the logic of a just-introduced new mechanic or rule. As a result, little time is given to establishing meaningful character relationships or human drama, and the fact that this exhausting exposition is still going on during the film's climatic scenes is an indicator that Inception's obsession with being clever does not make for a satisfying experience.