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Visually stunning but with a little bit on the inside this movie will give you exactly the same experience as The Shutter Island - previous DiCaprio's work.

Tom Hardy & Cillian Murphy are the only actors who actually fit the movie. The rest of quite amazing line-up is all over the place and doesn't really suit their roles. Movie seems to focus on DiCaprio without even trying to give away any information about other characters.

Now to the art work: the dreams that were created suppose to be convincing to the subject but they didn't even look that real on the screen. Artificial acting with backgrounds looks really plastic and gives away the ending right in middle of the movie.

I would consider 2 hour 30 minutes is a big fail from editors and director for the amount you get from the flick. Christopher Nolan spent almost 10 years writing the screen play, but originality that he had in Memento is well overpowered by Hollywood glitter with no substance that new Batman movies are so full of.

Overall, watch it if you like eye-candy movies. I bet there would be plenty fans and a lot of talk but movie just doesn't cut it for me when you know what is going to happen and there is more than an hour to go until the end.

The few thing that are good about this movie is casting and authentic stages of old London. Del Torro, Weaving and Hopkins are doing great job with Weaving who manages to steal most of the movie. The story is boring and after first 30 mins it goes down big time (seems like a trend in Hollywood, so you wont return your ticket). Character development is good cosidering A-class cast, although beast actions are questionable in many cases: at one point it kills hordes or people, later it struggles to kill one man. The final fight is pretty disappointing and finishes quicker than it starts. Computer Graphics is really bad. One second you can see character with wolf make up, next his paw is computer generated which kills all authenticy the movie pose to have. Do not recommend in cinemas or on your TV.

Written and directed by young Anna Melikian, this movie has one huge disadvantage. Somewhere in the middle it is loosing it's mystique and charmed atmosphere and becomes just your average movie about human relationship. The end is seems to be taken from numerous movies about small towns in the middle of nowhere. However, the plot itself is not that bad and cinematographers also did make really good job, so if you have spare time and have nothing to do AT ALL, than it worth watching, however I would suggest something different. As for actors, they didn't impress me that much that I remembered anything in particular. It can be grade as average, but with original plot.