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INCEPTION

Movie review by David Blackwell

 

148 minutes, rated PG-13

ASPECT RATIO:  2.35:1

STUDIO:  Warner Bros. Pictures/ Legendary Pictures/ SynCopy

Theatrical RELEASE DATE:  7-16-2010

 

STARRING Leonardo DiCaprio (Cobb), Ellen Page (Ariadne), Ken Watanabe (Saito), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Arthur), Cillian Murphy (Robert Fisher Jr.), Tom Hardy (Eames), Dileep Rao (Yusuf), Tom Berenger (Browning), Marion Cotillard (Mal), Michael Caine (Miles)

WRITTEN and DIRECTED by Christopher Nolan

Cobb is a thief who can enter people’s dreams and steal ideas aka Extraction.  He is hired by a powerful man named Saito who says he can clear Cobb’s name so he can go home to be with his kids (because Cobb is blamed for the death of his wife which the truth will unfold during the movie).  Saito wants Cobb to implant an idea (it’s called Inception) in the head of the son of a businessman.  The idea is to get the son to break up his father’s powerful energy company.   Cobb assembles his team and many on his team think Inception is impossible (but Cobb says he has done it once).   When in the dream worlds, Cobb is plagued by the projection of his dead wife, Mal, who can sabotage his missions.

 

INCEPTION is an absolute amazing head trip.  It creates a dreamscape with rules that shouldn’t be broken and dream levels that affects other levels if you’re in someone else’s dream.  The visuals are stunning in dreamscapes as other levels can effect deeper levels (one part has a hotel in zero-G).   Nolan even looks at the little details like each dreamer has a token that others can’t touch because the token is the one object that tells them they are in a dream.  He inserts rules for the dream world like the subconscious attacking the people who change reality too much in the dreams and people being trained to fight those who try to extract ideas from their minds.  INCEPTION is a cerebral sci-fi caper film that makes you question what is reality and what would you do to get back to the ones you love (or to experience dreams that seem more real than the real world).

 

The assault on a fortress (high up in snowy mountains) near the end make me think director Christopher Nolan would make a great choice to direct a James Bond movie (Nolan even said recently he would love to direct a Bond movie).   Nolan sustains the last hour with momentum that never lets up as it flips between different levels of the dream world.    Nolan has been on a streak of great movies beginning with BATMAN BEGINS continuing up to INCEPTION.   The movie is definitely one of the best movies of 2010- an easy one for the top ten list.    Definitely, it is a film worth seeing more than once (even if it is just for the visuals).    See it now because this is one of the best films out now.

 

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