In a lifetime of watching movies, the hardest I had getting through a whole movie was one called "The Sicilian" (1987). That was until I saw "Inception." The 148 minutes of sitting in my seat during its showing was worse than when I had a 16 hour flight to Australia with needles and pins running in my back and legs the whole way. Cillian Murphy is fabulous but our local high school could have supplied a better ensemble cast.

The story was conceptually all right. But DiCaprio's headlining the movie helped to make it a disaster with his all of his excessive, over-dramatized, wide-eyed looks and theatrics. He's neither a sympathetic or interesting character. Put him in a suit, slick back his hair, and grow a little facial stubble, but he still looks like a teenager pretending to look like a grown up.