Inception Review

I became a fan of Christopher Nolan’s( The Dark Knight, Memento) after I saw Memento some years back and thought it was one of the most original and best films around. I went into Inception hoping he was going back to that style of complex storytelling. I was also hoping he still had a great film in him after The Dark Knight, seeing as it was soo good. Nolan has made his masterpiece with Inception, and has given us  the best film of the summer and one of the greatest and most original films ever made!

Inception is about Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Cobb, being able to hack into people’s dreams and gather information for a fee. He is offered a job by Saito(Ken Watanabe) to go into the mind of Robert Fischer( Cillian Murphy) and plant information in it, hence the title of the film. He has to gather a team cosisting of an architect who builds the dream(Ellen Page), a forger who shifts to different people(Tom Hardy), a driver/obesrver of the crew as they dream(Delecp Rao), and Arthur(Joseph Gordan-Levitt) who helps out Cobb as needed. The film is the perfect blend of action, drama, and mystery and is very impressive how Nolan handles all of the situations. One scene near the end with Joseph Gordan-Levitt’s character really flashes you back to the Matrix films and is very well done.

The acting is top notch as it always is in Nolan’s films. Leonardo DiCaprio really delivers in this film. He’s become one of the few actors that when he gets into a role he’s not acting anymore, he is the character.  It’s really hard to belive he doesn’t have an Oscar. Marion Cotillard plays Leo’s wife(Mal) and does a teriffic good job and really comes of as creepy for most of the film, in a good way. Tom Berenger, Pete Postlethwaite, and Michael Caine round out the rest of the main actors and all do a great job as they always do in their films.

It’s hard to believe but, the music might just be the best part about this film. Hans Zimmer put together his best score in years, and that’s saying A LOT!  I don’t buy movie soundtracks much anymore, I will be purchasing this one, it’s that good! The visuals are aslo very well done. The scene where the city folds over it’s self is impressive. The final location of the film is defenitly the most impressive of all, I won’t tell what it is but you’ll know when you see it.

Nolan starting writing this film 10 years ago and just now decided to make it. The fact that he wrote/directed this film proves his talent. In my opinion, this film puts Nolan in the group of greatest directors of my generation! There is no way you will only see this once! If this film gets over looked at the Oscars, I give up on them! A perfect film!!

5/5