Inception (2010) Review

director: Christopher Nolan

writer: Christopher Nolan

starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Wantanabe, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy

genre: Action, Sci-Fi

"What's the most resilient parasite? An idea. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules." This much can be said for Nolan's ideas that he creates into films. The man's ideas are like a virus. But a beautiful virus that we don't want to be lost of or cured from.

Inception is one of those films that the less you know the better. So for people haven't seen the film. Don't worry I wont spoil anything. What I will say will be enough for a general idea of the film to be known. And about watching the trailer. The last trailer that came out has too many details and should be avoided like the plague. The trailer on the review is OK to see.

Mr. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a man trapped from everything that is dear to him, his family. In hiding the only thing he can do is his profession of stealing ideas. He finds a way back to his family threw one final job. He has to assemble a crew to dig deep to uncover the secrets he needs and make Inception possible and escape his own nightmare before it's too late.

Anybody who knows me personally knows about my undying love for Christopher Nolan. He has made some of favorite films in Memento, The Dark Knight and now Inception. For me Nolan is the ultimate filmmaker. Like with The Dark Knight he has made another intelligent film that works on multiple layers. The simplest in The Dark Knight was the battle of good vs. evil. In Inception it's Cobb's battle to get the job done to get to his family. The complexity is the emotional depth of his problem and the way he has to get there threw many layers of the human mind.

This is the kind of filmmaking that redefines the limits of what you can do with film as a art form. Not only did Nolan make an incredibly complex film that took him 9-10 years to write. But a film that even at its simplest level can attract the most common cinema goer. This is why I love his work and constantly praise him. His films are for everybody. Not for a special group that can understand his meaning alone. But for everybody. He truly believes that the mass audience should be apart of the most intelligent and thought stimulating film of the year. A film that not for a second is too difficult to comprehend but more rich in it's essence.

Praise alone to Nolan would be unfair to the rest of the people that worked on the production. Nolan's choice of cinematographer and composer are crucial to why his films have been so good. Wally Pfister camera work and collaboration with Nolan's have led to beautiful and realistic visuals. But visuals alone would have been nearly nothing if not paired with composer Hans Zimmer and his crushing and vibrant soundtrack. The actors all can be named and praised individually. But big kudos should go to DiCaprio who was defined himself as one of most important actors of our generation and Joseph Gordon-Levitt who showed off his acting and fighting skills superbly. When awards season comes some of these people will have to be acknowledged or something is not going right in this world.

To conclude it would be blasphemy not to see this film in the theater. The best way to experience this film is there and no where else. This is the movie of the year no doubt about it. The level of work that Nolan and his production put in this film is mind blowing. Inception has enough for everyone tastes action, suspense, stunning effects and a deep intelligent emotional story. Filmmakers seeing this film will be envious of Nolan's accomplishment and audiences will astonished with the movie magic in front of them. Highly recommend to all.

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Review by Paul