Somewhat belatedly I reviewed INCEPTION . The reason for the delay is because I think Nolan is the most overrated director working today . I'm not saying he's a bad director just an overrated one whose films seem to rocket high up in to the IMBDb top 250 list . He is a good ideas man but like Michael Crichton for over 20 years the premise of his films aren't fully developed and his ideas often owe more to other people . The idea of a film taking place in reverse is as old as cinema itself believe it or not . INTERSTELLAR owes much to 2001 and an apocalyptic novel by John Christopher written in 1956 and with INCEPTION .... oh dear INCEPTION

On a visual level INCEPTION is very impressive . We've all seen those nifty trailers with characters standing around in the middle of collapsing landscapes . This isn't really indicative of how the film plays out . Instead we have pretty boy character A meeting character B

Character A : " You know how when you have a dream blah blah blah ?"

Character B: "Yes"

Character A: "Blah blah blah"

and by the time pretty boy has explained the plot mechanics and exposition to character XYZ I felt like someone should be waking me up . Not only that but some of us are old enough to remember other - and dare I state better ? - virtual reality movies . At the end of the day INCEPTION reminds me of one of Steven Moffat's timey wimey twist turney tales from DOCTOR WHO that is trying to be too clever and at the same time ends up becoming a mess and the reaction of "Oh my gosh what a very clever original idea" from IMDb commentators leaves me perplexed