The idea is interesting. With a better director, could be a good movie, but it is just too slow. It just drags
One scene, for example, should be full of tension, a race between life and death for the protagonist, with his real life world presenting a clear and present danger, but we spend such a long time in the dream world, with people exchanging looks. If it had been just that little bit tighter, the concept would have been exquisite, with our own plot driven stress overlaying the dream sequence and bringing an urgency to it that contrasted with the sequence's laziness.
But that's not what happened. I got so bored I lost interest. Nearly twenty minutes before the narration kicks in and describes the centuries spent in the dream space. Well, at least I didn't have to watch it.
Maybe more a judgement of my own lack of focus? Perhaps, but maybe a tighter cut would have be transformative.
One scene, for example, should be full of tension, a race between life and death for the protagonist, with his real life world presenting a clear and present danger, but we spend such a long time in the dream world, with people exchanging looks. If it had been just that little bit tighter, the concept would have been exquisite, with our own plot driven stress overlaying the dream sequence and bringing an urgency to it that contrasted with the sequence's laziness.
But that's not what happened. I got so bored I lost interest. Nearly twenty minutes before the narration kicks in and describes the centuries spent in the dream space. Well, at least I didn't have to watch it.
Maybe more a judgement of my own lack of focus? Perhaps, but maybe a tighter cut would have be transformative.