Scream 4: First pic of Ghostface.

Wes Craven has given the fans what they've been asking for! Here's the first official image of Ghostface himself from the set of Scream 4. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Nico Tortorella, Anthony Anderson, and Marielle Jaffe all star in the Wes Craven helmed return of Ghostface. The franchise is reborn in theaters on April 15th, 2011.

Inception

I loved Momento, enjoyed The Prestige and was thrilled by the two Batman films that Christopher Nolan crafted with pure movie magic.....Inception however was very different.

This is a beautifully shot piece of film, nearly every minute you could find something to light up the eyes, which really helps to keep the interest.....for a while. Soon into it though I started to feel trapped, bored and annoyed...with the painfully poor scriptwriting talking the films own plot to death...a plot which really isn't as complicated as the film makers would like to think.

The journey takes far too long (a whole 2 1/2 half hours) with scene after scene trundling along, soporific....dream inducing. So often I wanted to shout at the screen "OK you've explained it for the 50th time NOW GET THE HELL ON WITH IT".....to the point that I really didn't care in the end what happened.

And what about the star....well Leonardo diCaprio's story involving his wife committing suicide...blah blah blah..who cares really wasn't necessary. I didn't need to know about his character, in fact Leo was the most boring of the bunch with his selfish acting style. In an early scene with Michael Caine...Leo (the actor) was delivering lines like he was in a different room to Caine....having a completely different conversation. The same went for Joseph Gordon Levitt who looked completely out of place in this movie, like a kid in a suit who wet down his hair as to fit in with the adults at parents evening.

Its a shame really as the decent actors (most notably) Ellen Page and the wonderful, brilliant and amazing Tom Hardy (I love him so much, can you guess?) were given sod all to do. Totally wasted talent which totally wasted time was a big problem here.

The action scenes were very well put together and delivered a good wake up to me as I was slowly drifting into my own dreams, most notably the Matrix Style (yeah not THAT original Nolan) fighting in a corridor with zero gravity. But it was good nuts and bolts action...not game changing.

Overall this is a hugely pretentious film, dull and terribly written.

2 out of 5.... One way to salvage some fun with this blunderbuss would be to fall asleep while watching and dream up a better movie yourself. Try it. You’ll avoid a headache.

Review by Joseph Carter