INCEPTION

Inception stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Rated PG-13 with a running time of 2 hrs. and 28 mins.

Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) is a master extractor. He can steal thoughts from people while they are sleeping through their dreams. Dom and his partner Arthur (Levitt) are offered a big job by business man Saito (Watanabe). The job is Inception which is to plant an idea in ones mind through dreams. Cobb accepts this difficult job because he is promised a way back to his kids in America. So he and Arthur assemble a team to pull of this last job consisting of Ariadne (Page) and Eames (Hardy). Each member is needed to perform different tasks to pull off the job. During the job Cobb is haunted by his dead wife Mal (Cotillard) in his dreams. Their target is Robert Fischer (Murphy) who is getting his fathers corporation. Saito wants Fischer to disassemble the corporation because it is his biggest rival. Yes the plot is complex at times but Inception is a heartbreaking, entertaining thriller with plenty of action and easily the best movie of the year so far.

Lets start with the man behind it all, Christopher Nolan. Nolan is easily one of the greatest film directors working right now. He knows how to tell a great action adventure story without getting far fetched and there is always the characters emotions that pull us into the story and keep it anchored in reality. This is especially true with Inception. How Nolan thought of all of this just shows he is a true genius. He came up with something totally original and made it translate on screen. He realized how the world of the dream can have this big scope about it and he used that idea to its full potential. He almost seems to top himself with every movie he directs. Starting with Batman Begins and then followed that up with The Dark Knight which is considered to be the best comic book movie ever made which I think it definitely is. If anyone can top something like The Dark Knight Nolan is the man to do it. His next movie will be the follow up to The Dark Knight which is supposed to come out on July 20th 2012. Definitely cannot wait for that. Christopher Nolan is becoming my favorite director because he simply keeps making GREAT movies.

The acting in Inception is absolutely perfect. I would not change one actor in this movie. DiCaprio definitely used to make movies that I had no interest in but ever since The Departed he has been growing on me. 2010 has made me really start believing that DiCaprio is a very good actor especially in Shutter Island and now Inception. Two actors really stood out to me for the first time in this movie; Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy. Gordon-Levitt is very good as Arthur and he has the best scene in the movie which was having a full on fight without gravity. He has been doing a lot of indie movies lately but this movie shows that he can be in big movies and do very well. Tom Hardy was also good and quite funny as Eames. I have never seen Hardy in anything before but he really stood out here and he should definitely keep acting in bigger movies. Also Marion Cotillard gives a scary yet heartbreaking role as Dom's wife. The rest of the supporting cast didn't stand out as much but they were still good.

Inception is not perfect but its very very close. It is one of the best movies I have seen in a while. The story is imaginative, clever and also has this epic feel it it. The characters are fully developed and you really do care for them. Finding out how Dom's wife dies and seeing him try to let go of her is truly heartbreaking and pretty much completes the film. Inception is why I love movies. It really is a mix of a lot of emotions and it has the great action sequences to keep everyone entertained. The action sequences in the snowy mountains were truly unique and looked excellent on the big screen. The only thing keeping it from being perfect is that there are still a few confusing points about the whole world of the dream and its rules. Other than that Inception is a great movie.

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