Movie Review Inception

Inception Movie Review

“If you can steal an idea from someone’s mind, why can’t you plant one there instead?”
-Inception

Inception is a 2010 sci-fi thriller film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film’s main cast includes actors with profound talent such as; Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.

 

Inception is a box office success having grossed $800 million worldwide—becoming the 45th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film won four Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. And we are not surprised; Christopher Nolan has clearly proven himself worthy of these awards.

Nolan created a complex maze he calls a movie where he has led his audience through massive twists and turns and left them breathless over the anticipation, the converging of emotions, the reprised moments, and the action. This is a movie that can either be told in a long array of words or not at all. This is a movie you have to fully watch in order to understand.

The film itself is a giant puzzle filled with millions of puzzle pieces a viewer slowly solves as he reaches the end. And the moment he does, only then can he step back to finally look at the big picture; the masterpiece Nolan has wonderfully created.

Summary

 

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are “extractors.” They earn a living by stealing ideas, secrets, and thoughts from people’s subconscious by infiltrating  their minds through shared-dreaming. One day, Cobb found himself offered a job to do the exact opposite. Instead of stealing an idea, he was asked by Saito (Ken Wantanabe)—a billionaire—to plant an idea in a person’s mind instead.

It was not an easy task and Cobb admitted that it was almost impossible to do. But why did he take the job anyway? One word: freedom. Cobb has a past he’s running away from. For years he’s been desperately hiding and isn’t able to go back to America because he was charged with murder. And since Saito promised him his freedom from these said charges, Cobb accepted the job. He was willing to do anything to get back to his children in America, even when he knew the job could cost him his life.

As the movie unfolds, we go in deeper into Cobb’s past, secrets, and the real story why he couldn’t go home.

 

Review

 

The movie is fast paced, action filled, and flawless in the way its mysteries were pieced together as one big picture. Nolan managed to make a believable science-fiction story and make it seem like reality, destroying the boundaries of fiction all together.

The effects, the cinematography, and the music were perfectly made and fit into the film immaculately. It’s a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat and doesn’t take you out of there until it’s finished.

The actors were superb as well. They created the characters and have made viewers love them as if they were real.

The plot is original, mind boggling, and almost unbelievably fascinating especially if you watch the film a second time. Nolan has left the viewers with no loopholes and no second of boredom; the movie will take your breath away.

Nolan created a world where imagination as well as danger had no limits. I applaud this movie and recommend it to everyone. It’s a complete emotional roller-coaster as well as an eye-opening experience. No one in this generation and the next should miss this film, it is a masterpiece.