An Elseworlds review of DC Universe Online
The following is a transmission from a parallel Earth within the Multiverse where DC Universe Online has already been released:
DC Universe Online is a courageous breath of fresh air! They have admirably risen to the challenge of building a game around iconic characters that players will NOT be allowed to control. Yes, dear readers, they have done the seemingly impossible – they’ve built a game involving Batman where *I* don’t mind that I can’t BE Batman!
Butterfly dreams and Dark Cities – A review of Inception
Spoiler-free review:
Inception is a very good film. If you’re one of the handful of people who haven’t seen it yet, you should make time to do so. It’s well-acted, tightly-directed and provides a story that unfolds in a generally satisfying way. Its most successful moments are almost entirely visual and those portions of the film are truly unique and compelling and make it a worthy effort entirely on their own.
That being said, I found its core philosophical and narrative challenges to be rather uninspired and some of the story’s choices (particularly near the end) were disappointingly shallow. Inception is a movie defined by new vistas, but not new ideas.
In my view, it exists on the film spectrum occupied on one end by The Matrix and on the other by Dark City. In fact, it felt very much like a movie that has been written and re-written numerous times in the shadow of those earlier films. The result is a partial success – it is better than The Matrix and not as good as Dark City.
Spoilers follow from this point forward: