eversoserious Reviews

Speechless (1994)

Competent and easy on the eye romantic comedy

[5/10 · 29 December 2010]

Easy on the mind, on the eyes, and on the ears.

Geena Davis and Michael Keaton make the most of the best lines in the script, and support from Christopher Reeve is excellent. The film stutters on occasion and may be ten minutes or so too long, but it manages to keep you interested, just.

Watch for the continuity errors when Geena manages to get herself engaged during one short bedtime phone call. The ring that didn't come from the phone!!! And what an appearance by the red Morgan convertible, put through its paces by Davis and Keaton in more than one way.

Good for a night in with popcorn, chocs, and ice cream.

Inception (2010)

Deep, if you try to get inside the messages

[5/10 · 29 December 2010]

As someone who has explored hypnotism in depth, the concepts behind Inception were relatively easy to comprehend, and I enjoyed the novel idea of dreams within dreams within dreams. But the plot does seem to get caught up trying to be too clever with the prologue and epilogue, and I would agree with some critics who accuse it of almost collapsing in on itself. I think it just manages to keep interest, but that may be solely because I have experienced very deep trances in hypnosis, and understood the ideas suggested by the film.

Visually the film uses rather interesting spectacle to show how dreams may collapse in on themselves, and tries to keep you guessing as to who is attempting what. It is, at times, stunning to watch. But overall the film fails to develop an interesting idea to the maximum.

The acting is reasonable rather than good.

Not in the same league as Minority Support (for example) but reasonable sci-fi.