I didn’t love it even more than you.

After waiting a month to see it in the true-IMAX theater that Nolan used for projection tests (tix were sold-out that far in advance, unless you wanted to sit in the first 2 rows)–I ended up walking out around the 90 minute mark.

Other than ego, I cannot for the life of me figure out why Nolan felt he had to shoot a movie that is a lot of close-ups of actors talking indoors in full, 15-perf, 70mm IMAX.

Bottom line is that I was just incredibly bored and emotionally uninvolved in anything that was happening. I’m quite familiar with post-war, McCarthy-era witch hunts, so there was no drama there for me.

I enjoyed The Prestige and The Dark Knight–but Nolan just doesn’t impress me as a director any more.