"Inception" Movie Review

"Inception" movie poster.

"Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming." Written by Warner Bros. Pictures (Link below.)

(Back) Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Wow. I'm still trying to process this movie. It's a lot to take in, what with dream psychology, psychology, and bad relationships all in one movie. I really enjoyed it though. It was incredible to watch. I didn't even realize I was watching a science fiction until one of the actors mentioned it in an interview about the movie. 

Eames, played by Tom Hardy (who appears in another film by Mr. Nolan as Bain in the "The Dark Knight Rises"), was my favorite character because of his witty lines. 

Ken Watanabe (L) and Marion Cotillard.

Marion Cotillard was incredible as a psychopathy dead wife who made her husband's life a complete nightmare! She has officially made French people suck less. 

I had no idea that Joseph Gordon-Levitt could be so unmistakably hot fighting people in a suit. 

Ellen Page had an interesting and mothering supportive character that I enjoyed watching being too curious for her own good. 

Michael Caine was in it. And he's always an awesome addition to a cast. 

Ken Watanabe was also in this picture and although I think he's possibly the sexiest Asian I've ever seen and I have loved him since I saw him in "The Last Samurai", I feel his character wasn't as developed as the other characters were, but that's Christopher Nolan's fault. Shame on you, Christopher! 

Dileep Rao's character, Yusuf, suffered the same ordeal. He was interesting but not fully formed. But I could only imagine how long that film would be.

Cillian Murphy only seems to play a whiney bitch of a character, doesn't he? William Killick in "The Edge of Love"; the Scarecrow in "The Dark Knight". Just sayin'.

And, of course, Leonardo DiCaprio, who did an excellent impression of himself as a serious and mentally unstable person.

Talulah Riley.

And I mustn't forget, though I almost did, Talulah Riley, who played a va-va-voom character for about two minutes in the film. But I am just so surprised because the last time I saw her, she was in "Pride and Prejudice" playing Elizabeth's (Kiera Knightley's) average-looking and gloomy sister. I cannot believe the transformation and I don't think it was CGI.

It didn't feel like a two-and-a-half-hour movie either, it just kept going and kept being awesome. The costumes and scenery were breath-taking. And there weren't too many editing mistakes in it, which is amazing. Although you could argue and say that while in a dream state most "mistakes" could be attributed to the logic and law of dreams, which is to say none at all. So, were they actually mistakes?

Script available here: http://www.raindance.org/site/scripts/Inception.pdf.

If someone knows who made or owns the rights
to this poster, please let me know..

*SPOILERS* I like the way it ended too. It gets me thinking: if it was all a dream, how many levels of dreams is this one guy in? And if it isn't a dream (which is what I suspect), then why didn't Michael Caine's character take Cobb's kids to meet him in France? Although that wouldn't have been as awesome a movie. Maybe an awesome book series though. 

There was one character I forgot about after the suspense started building: they just let that poor bastard get tortured to death! That poor guy, played by Lukas Haas who's quite handsome for such a thin fellow. 

Favorite Lines:

Eames: [Shows up while Arthur is in a gunfight] You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. 

[Pulls out a grenade launcher] 

Yusuf: [after surviving a roll with the van] Did you see that? 

[realizes that everyone else in the van is asleep] 

Silly owl.

Cobb: You create the world of the dream. We bring the subject into that dream and fill it with their subconscious. 

Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that it's reality? 

Cobb: Well, dreams, they feel real while we're in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange. 

Arthur: It would have to be a 747. 

Cobb: Why is that? 

Arthur: Because in a 747, the pilot's up top, and the first class cabin's in the nose, so no one would walk through. But you'd have to buy out the entire cabin. And the first class flight attendant... 

Saito: I bought the airline. 

[Everybody turns and stares at him. Saito just shrugs] 

Saito: It seemed neater. 

Cobb: [notices that he's being followed] That price on my head, was that dead or alive? 

Eames: Not sure. See if he starts shooting.

Arthur: What about his security? It's gonna get worse as we go deeper. 

Cobb: I think we run with Mr. Charles. 

Arthur: No. 

Eames: Who's Mr. Charles? 

Arthur: Bad idea. 

Cobb: The second we get in that hotel with Fischer, his security is gonna be all over us. We run with Mr. Charles like we did on the Stein job. 

Eames: So you've done it before? 

Arthur: Yeah, and it didn't work. The subject realized he was dreaming and his subconscious tore us to pieces. 

Eames: Excellent. But you learned a lot, right?

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/plotsummary.