PrimeWire

UNPRINCIPLED PALINDROME

40%

Christopher NOLAN has finally run out of ideas. He now has to resuscitate concepts that are twenty years’ old in order to keep his career going, rather than retire from being a creative himself and then move on to produce the works of the next generation of film directors.

The rampant egomania and intellectual arrogance here is emotionally depressing and distinctly un-entertaining as we witness an above-average talent reduced to hack work.

The characterisation is poor, the ideas ridiculous and the cast not always well-chosen. But the biggest problem is a script which gives little for the actors to do to enable them to breathe life into their characters. This lack of any possibility for audience identification leaves us with a psychologically-barren spectacle which occurs for no really-valid reason.

A waste of time.