“Inception” Review
July 29, 2010
Release date: 07/16/2010
Length: 148′
Personal Rating (1-10): 9
You know there are pairs of Directors and Actors that just make a good job. We have Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio and some others also. Well for “Inception” we have a mix in the couples. Christopher Nolan teams up with Marty’s favorite, Leonardo DiCaprio and they do a great job!
“Inception” is a a thrilling sci-fi movie that brings in front of us the possibility of accessing someone’s dreams and controlling them in order to find out information that the subconscious of the subject can deliver. There are several techniques of manipulation and Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is one of the best extractors in the field. Due to some past mistakes Cobb is now unable to set foot in mother land USA and get reunited with his kids and when he gets the chance to get his record clean he takes it without hesitation even if that means that he has to do the impossible. He has to plant an idea in someone’s head. From here the action starts. Cobb creates a team that will allow him to get close to his subject and make him go into a triple phase dream. Of course things start to go wrong and the team has to face different issues with their plan, including daemons from Cobb’s past.
“Inception” is breath taking, it sticks you to your chair and it feels like you are there. The action scenes are unbelievably well done and the entire script (big thumbs up to Nolan for writing this) is so well figured out, down to the last details, that even if you know that what you see is not possible (yet) while you are watching the movie you believe everything, your mind just opens up and can ignore laws of gravity or plain physics, just like the movie implies you can do in your dreams.
What I especially liked about the production of the movie, is the soundtrack. Unlike other movies, where songs are played to fill gaps and sometimes redirect you to the emotional state they are trying to transmit, the musical background in Inception is there not to fill gaps, but to give more meaning to a scene. Even if characters are engaged in a dialog, this is doubled and enhanced by some music in the background. If you ask me, this is an art.
“Inception” is the type of movie that bewilders you. You get out of the cinema and ask yourself, what the f*** just happened? Do I love this movie, Do I loath it? Everybody is talking about it in the first phase, you hear people telling to one and other “you are in a dream”, you hear comments, bad and good. This is the sign of a good movie. If after you stand up from your chair you don’t think of the fastest route home and something to eat, but instead want to know the other’s opinion, then the movie was a good one.
The originality of the movie is undoubted and yet somehow a comparison with “Shutter Island” is inevitable. Even though, there are different scripts, different plots, different Directors, somehow the general tense atmosphere, the thin line between fiction and reality and the main character that is trapped in two worlds and can not make the difference anymore brings the two movies together.
Recommendation: Go to the cinema and see “Inception”. It is worth it. For now, watch the trailer:
Inception was one of the most confusing movies I’ve ever seen! I liked it, but through out the whole movie I just kept on saying, “WHAT THE HECK!?!?” I have to see it again, it was certainely unique!
Inception is an AWESOME flick! Screwed with my mind a little though. That said, this is a definite for my DVD collection
There are different interpretations of this film. I think Cobb was dreaming the whole time
‘Inception’ is absolutely, indisputably, one of the best sci-fi movies of the new century!