I'm not often driven to write a review but this needs to be said. Billed with rave reviews expectation was high, but this film is totally over rated, Unengaging, uninteresting & down-rite boring.. at best contrived & designed to bamboozle the General viewing demographic into believing it is an amazing masterful multi layered work of Genius, in fact its simply a long winded futile effort at re-branding the matrix concept of virtual reality.... The first hour is taken up by efforts to convince and educate the Audience at the lowest intellectual level, so anyone with half an 'o'level awaits the actual story with Grinding misery... when eventually the director feels we are up to speed what we have in store is just a jumbled overly contrived story of not particularly interesting content.. the only redeeming feature this film has to offer is a fleeting philosophical moment of "what if...." please take a pillow and a book if you choose to endure this films transparent 2hrs+ of flashing lights loud atmospheric musical score... I'm generally a positive glass is half full kinda Guy.. but this is definitely an empty cigarette-butt tainted post hangover stale beer bottle of a film....