Inception (2010)

A film that most film critics have been raving about in the last year, Inception has taken people to a new level of filmmaking and has impressed film fans and critics to an acclaimed status worldwide. It was named the best film of 2010 on numerous occasions and won four Academy Awards including: Visual Effects, Cinematography and two Sound Awards whilst being nominated for four others including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. To me this Christopher Nolan's third best film after Memento and The Dark Knight.

Now for my Review of Inception. The term "Inception" is defined as someone planting an idea into someone's mind using a device which lets humans invade another human's sub-conscious (dreams). This film's plot is about a skilled thief played brilliantly by Leonardo Di Caprio, who needs to perform Inception on the heir of a Business Empire in order to get back to his home. Now if this technology existed, we would never be considered safe anymore even if we really thought this was groundbreaking. The thief Dom Cobb, is said to be the best at stealing information from a human's mind and he proves this at the beginning of the film when he and his partner Arthur played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, steal information from the mind of Mr Saito played by Ken Watanabe as part of an audition to see if the best extractors can perform "Inception". 

The whole premise of this film makes it sound like a Stanley Kubrick film as we can recognize some motives and ideas constructed in the visual style of Kubrick's films. This film has so many great ideas inside it and uses those ideas to create a two hour long maze of a film as if it were created to make us confused and feeling motivated to use our minds to work every piece of what was coming next. I honestly thought I that this film was not an amazingly great film but I thought it was a good film even if it did borrow some ideas from films of Stanley Kubrick and the science-fiction action film, The Matrix (1999). My reasons for my liking of Inception are as follows:  Point 1. Its Art Direction, Visual Effects and Original Score make it one of the best looking films I've seen in recent years. Those three elements are so brilliantly put together that it gives the film a greater edge towards it. Point 2. The Cast was very wise choice especially with the enigmatic performance of Eames played by Tom Hardy. The actors in this film make it a very realistic film as it explores corporate espionage in it's ruthlessness and dishonesty. One actor I was pleased to see out of the rest was Tom Berenger. Berenger has acted in many films including my personal favorite War film Platoon (1986). I have never seen him in anything recent and it was a delight to see him on top form as the corporate bad guy who is also the godfather of the subject of Inception played by Cillian Murphy.

Inception is proof that blockbuster and art can be the same thing. I listed it as the sixth best film of 2010.

I will give this film 4/4 stars. This was my review of Inception and you can get all my reviews via Blogspot.