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Just got back from seeing this, and I have to say it's most definitely one of the best summer blockbusters I've seen in quite a wee while.
Now, the key word here is: blockbuster. Because that is all it is: one gigantic popcorn flick that requires a little more brain power than usual - and given the current dross that Hollywood has been crapping out for a while now, that can only be a good thing if this type of 'thinking person's film' catches on.
The CGI was very pretty and worth the admission price alone. There's also some decent ideas in the film which I felt could have been expanded upon but they weren't so there's no point in crying over spilt milk. Um, the performances were passable to good given with what they had work with...
Speaking of which, Nolan is starting to head deep into Burton land with his consistant reuse of the same bloody actors over and over. Yes, Mr Caine, I'm looking in your direction. Bloody hell. At one point I kept thinking that Christian Bale was about to show up on screen. Can't say that helped with my levels of involvement with the film in the least.
And that leads me to another point. At this point, I think it's very fair to say that Nolan doesn't do characterisation or emotion very well. There's always such a cold, detached quality to his films that makes it so damn hard to truly immerse yourself in the story or really care about what happens to the characters - and no. Making the lead character a grieving widow does not elicit sympathy - get a new plot device, Nolan.
Aside from that. Yeah, go see it. It's a trillion times better than Avatar but that's not really saying much.
Now, the key word here is: blockbuster. Because that is all it is: one gigantic popcorn flick that requires a little more brain power than usual - and given the current dross that Hollywood has been crapping out for a while now, that can only be a good thing if this type of 'thinking person's film' catches on.
The CGI was very pretty and worth the admission price alone. There's also some decent ideas in the film which I felt could have been expanded upon but they weren't so there's no point in crying over spilt milk. Um, the performances were passable to good given with what they had work with...
Speaking of which, Nolan is starting to head deep into Burton land with his consistant reuse of the same bloody actors over and over. Yes, Mr Caine, I'm looking in your direction. Bloody hell. At one point I kept thinking that Christian Bale was about to show up on screen. Can't say that helped with my levels of involvement with the film in the least.
And that leads me to another point. At this point, I think it's very fair to say that Nolan doesn't do characterisation or emotion very well. There's always such a cold, detached quality to his films that makes it so damn hard to truly immerse yourself in the story or really care about what happens to the characters - and no. Making the lead character a grieving widow does not elicit sympathy - get a new plot device, Nolan.
Aside from that. Yeah, go see it. It's a trillion times better than Avatar but that's not really saying much.
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