Absinthe Head

This is a beautifully filmed, dreadfully color-graded, never-ending spectacle of heists upon heists, bromance, and the looming end of the world via a 9-part algorithm from the future. The premise is so laughable that I wished this was a comedy because a drama this is not. It's an action movie masquerading as a film for intellectuals who love explosions and corridor fights. The film is vacuous, it becomes tedious after heist #2. After that it's one silly thing after another. The script is written marvelously, it ties in all the parts, but this fact does not bring any more sense into the nonsensical plot. But even if one runs with that silly plot, the threat from the future is impossible to feel because there is not a single scene where we see why the future would want to annihilate us in the now. And without those emotional stakes, it's hard to get your emotions engaged because all you see is people doing hand-to-hand combat, breaking into places they shouldn't be breaking into, flying in the air, bungee jumping out of buildings, shooting things up and so forth. The threat from the future is supposedly due to our actions here and now, but what actions - you will never know. This movie is 150 minutes of my life I am never getting back. I can't say that I wasn't entertained on some level, but the opening is too loud, the colors are too harsh, the action is too action-y, and this film is emperor's new clothes on the celebrated Nolan who might be the only one who seriously believes this film is a masterpiece of intellectual cinema.