Movie Review: Inception

Review by: Matthew Kerwin

Grade- A+

From the director that brought us Memento, The Prestige and Batman, Christopher Nolan returns with his most daring piece of work to date. Inception is a film about the human mind, the concept of dreams and the subconscious and dreams within dreams layered in more dreams, sounds confusing, huh? It tells the story of a man, Dom Cobb a professional raider of information or extractor (Dicaprio) and his cohorts, Arthur (Gordon-Levitt) his associate, Adriadne (Page) a young and upcoming architect, Eames (Hardy) master of deception and Yusuf (Rao) the chemist. They are hired by a rich businessman Saito (Watanabe) to extract information from a rival corporate empire (Murphy).

To extract the information Cobb and his team have to perform what is called “Inception” (the birth of a new idea into another person’s mind, as if it was their own.) This task has never been done before and it is so risky that it puts Cobb and his team in jeopardy of losing their lives. Hence the question the viewer might ask. “Why would Cobb risk so much for another man’s gain?”

The answer is simple, because of the constant grief involving his wife Mal (Cotillard) and their two children, whom he is haunted by in his own dreams. Once he does this one last job he can return home to reunite with his family.

The film industry constantly comes up with washed up ideas, and remakes these days, but Nolan’s Inception is entirely original just like his feature length debut, The Following. The thing that is so fascinating is that his movies are so detailed, intricate, stimulating and challenging, but on a blockbuster scale. That is a rare treat in the modern world of cinema where everyone is paying to see explosions and CGI driven movies with no acting or talent behind them.

I really enjoyed this movie and cannot wait to see more of what Nolan has in store for us down the road. His career has blossomed ten fold since he rebooted The Batman franchise and he will have me holding my breath till his next film is announced.

Inception is Nolan’s Masterpiece. Go see this movie if you enjoy a mind-bending thriller, and don’t mind getting lost inside the dream’s of peoples minds. Be prepared its a clusterfuck.

Inception

Rated: PG-13

Written and Directed By: Christoper Nolan

Run time- 148 min