The Inception Reception
It’s easy to credit the American movie-going public with having the highest worldwide theatrical IQ of anyone in the world. Yet somehow whenever a Christopher Nolan movie hits theaters, that all seems to change. And then all of a sudden, routine movie-goers magically turn into amateur movie critics, declaring films like Inception to be the cinematic equivalent of the messiah.
Critical Flashback: Dreamscape (1984)
After a patient mysteriously dies in her sleep during dream therapy, gifted psychic Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) decides to investigate the man in charge, Dr. Paul Novotny (Max Von Sydow). Gardner later learns that Dr. Novotny is sending assassins into patients’ dreams to have them killed.