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Parent Written by Apersonthatdoes March 8, Report this review. Adult Written by JackBauer October 20, Inception has lots of violence, but no blood is shown. Suicide scenes, although nothing is shown, are used quite a lot in the movie to wake up from dreams. Continue reading. However, what is so obviously striking about the film, regardless of how it's effects were made, is how utterly insane and beautiful the visuals of the film truly are.
Dreams are an incredibly strange thing. They're something that literally everyone on earth experiences, but that can be very hard to describe to someone else, let alone to actually recreate in a new image. But Inception absolutely nails the incomprehensible nonsense that a dream can be, and manages to form that into an actual story.
This is kind of a difficult thing to decide on, actually. Because as anyone who has had a dream understands, dreams don't operate under any kind of set rules, and the fact that the film confines itself to certain rules kind of kills part of what makes the idea of existing within a dream so fun in the first place.
However, in a movie that is as complex as this one, it's easy to see why they may have wanted to lay out specific ground rules before getting things going, even if rules like the exponential increase of time as you get further into the dream state really have no logical basis.
Inception is absolutely a movie with it's own set of flaws, but what made it feel like such a revolutionary and thrilling film is the fact that it is just a very smart concept and execution, and it shamelessly relies on it's audience to be smart enough to understand everything that's going on too.
In a world where most movies seem to be dumbed down for the sake of the lowest common denominator, it was great to see a very big blockbuster style movie that seemed to be designed around the idea that people could actually fully understand and enjoy something that demanded a bit more intellectual energy from them.
Maybe it's a little hypocritical to praise the film for it's intelligence on one turn and then say it's too hard to follow on another, but hypocrisy be damned. Inception does have it's moments of down time to be sure, but once the story gets going it really seems to proceed at a breakneck speed without a lot of lulls, and at times there seem to be four or five different intense story lines going on at the same time.
Did earth manage to conquer what the Krells could not? Christopher Nolan wrote and directed Inception and though it gets a bit heavy at times, it still is an unmistakable masterpiece. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this and he's essentially a cat burglar of the mind.
His mission usually is to invade people's dreams and steal ideas which makes him an invaluable espionage agent. But Leo's also a wanted man. Some problems Leo has relating to his Id have forced him to rely on others to create dream worlds. He was working against Japanese billionaire industrialist Ken Watanabe and got caught, but then Watanabe likes his style and hires Leo and his team to do a job on the young heir to a communications conglomerate, Cillian Murphy.
It's not to steal anything, but to plant an idea in his brain with the dream team. The film is essentially how DiCaprio and his crew go about this job with Watanabe incidentally along for the ride. And its how Leo has to deal with some real demons involving guilt that force him to rely on others. Very nice computer graphic generated special effects characterize Inception and it will probably earn an Oscar nomination next year in that category.
Director Nolan gets his talented cast to read writer Nolan's dialog with verve and conviction. I truly hope this technology is not in our near future that would be a frightening thought. Sure, our eyes and ears are treated to amazing sites and loud noises each and every week and some would say this causes the brain just to lose any type of reality, which might be the reason certain people cough Lohan, Hilton and countless others are able to be hot stories while better, more worthwhile events are simply overlooked.
If one doesn't want to use their brain then it's best to stay away from this thing. It's best not to know too much about the story but it deals with a troubled man Leonardo DiCaprio who has made it a job to break into people's dreams and steal their ideas. However, due to a personal tragedy, he is forced to take a job doing the opposite, which is breaking into a man's dream to plant an idea.
Dreams have always played an interesting part in movies but no other has taken you this far into them and delivered such incredible ideas. Not only does the screenplay deliver a lot to think about but we also get plenty of action and amazing scenes of destruction. The trailer showed people just a little pinch of a city turning upside down but seeing the full sequence was something truly amazing.
Other amazing sequences was the entire final hour when our group of dream breakers must enter a multiple layer of dreams with one damaging effect after another. If you're familiar with Nolan then you already know what he can do and there's no question the man has talent but it is something special that a film like this could be pulled off at all. When you're dealing with multiple characters in multiple spaces and in multiple dream zones it would be easy and common for things to just fall apart under their own weight.
It's very difficult to keep you guessing from one moment to another without things either falling apart or getting so complicated that the viewer simply gives up on the film and moves on. The amazing thing is that Nolan never lets up on the gas and instead just delivers one more bit of story on top of the next and I thought it was amazing that he could keep the viewing coming along for the ride and never lose us.
I think some people are going to not understand what's going on or be able to figure out the multiple levels but when you kick back and think about what you've seen I think most will see that the maze had an entrance and an exit and nothing came as a cheat.
Each actor does fine work in their roles and certainly help the story move along. The nature of the story is a very good one but the visual effects are just as good. Looking at all the action and amazing effects makes one really appreciate the acting, directing and story even more simply because they didn't get lost behind everything else that was going on. I don't think there's any question that one needs more than a single viewing to catch everything happening here but that's certainly not a bad thing since each viewing will deliver bits and pieces that will probably take the film into directions that you didn't think were there.
Christopher Nolan is a director to be applauded. His films may be sometimes flawed — as in the case of this one — and often overrated, but at least he's a guy working in Hollywood who strives for originality. INCEPTION might well be his most original film yet, a cerebral thriller that requires audiences to use their brains for once, rather than going over the same old ground.
It's not quite the masterpiece that some say it is, but it is an engaging, well-made, and exciting movie that pretty much demands repeat viewings.
The first two thirds of the movie had me spellbound. The set-up is intense, throwing out wonderful ideas at the audience and not hanging around to see whether they're accepted. It's definitely a film where you have to pay attention to every second, although saying that I had no trouble following what was going on. As our characters enter dream state after dream state, I was drawn into this world with them.
Nolan is at the top of his game and even his super-fast-edited action sequences don't disappoint, with riveting gun battles and a fine car chase thrown in, too. Star Leonardo DiCaprio's back story adds an emotional core to the movie that it would have otherwise been missing and I loved being caught up in the various outlandish shenanigans.
Which is why the ending is a little bit disappointing — not a lot, but a little bit nonetheless. The whole setup with the snowbound fortress smacks of Bond, and has a seen-it-all before quality the film sidestepped for the most part.
It's as if Nolan pushed himself to the edge with the concepts he introduced in his movie, and then stepped back, afraid. We needed more scenes like the bit with the train and the revolving corridor, and less conventional action. There's plenty of scope for truly mind-blowing stuff in the dream worlds he so painstakingly creates — like the awesome early scene with the folding city.
But then he just delivers some sub-Bond antics and wastes what could have been a truly superb premise. Still, these are minor flaws in an otherwise very well made and entertaining movie. The ensemble cast are great: DiCaprio has matured nicely as a thinking man's hero, and the normally irritating Ellen Page is okay as the character whom the viewer follows into the antics.
Michael Caine delivers a nice cameo, and Ken Watanabe reminds us all of what a fine actor he is. There are also good turns for up-and-coming stars like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, and Marion Cotillard, and a very nice performance from one of my favourites, Cillian Murphy. SnoopyStyle 1 October This is a world where people can go into your dreams. Some are even able to use your dreams to influence your actions.
Dom Cobb Leonardo DiCaprio is skilled at stealing secrets by diving into your dreams. It's a dark treacherous world where he has made too many enemies.
Now he is offered a chance to come in from the cold. This time his team is tasked to plant an idea into the target's mind, or in one word inception. Christopher Nolan has created something of a Penrose-stairs structure in this movie. It's complicated and may be too convoluted to be reasonable. But that's as much part of its charm. The worlds, the effects, the ideas are all first rate. It is oozing with originality. The actors are also first rate.
Nolan can command the best cast to his projects now. There is nobody better than DiCaprio to anchor this movie. Nothing about this movie is done with lesser parts. This is indeed a top movie. Hitchcoc 31 July If one goes to an art gallery to see a provocative piece, one sees something new each time. That's what true art is. That's why a black light Elvis is not art.
This film is certainly a tour de force. It requires engagement at every step. LIke most works of art, it doesn't give it all away. I look forward to seeing this the second or even third time. First of all, the premise is wonderfully engaging. Our consciousness is layered as everyone knows who thinks they have awakened, only to find themselves in another nightmare--then they awaken again.
We know that the subconscious by nature is out of our control. There you have a wonderful premise. Now layer that further with people who can flip in and out and use this to their own ends. While confusing, it's exciting. Every nuance and event is picked precisely for its effectiveness. We have the luxury of watching from one precipice into the abyss. We do care about the people and not just because we want them to succeed. We care about the matrix of the dream levels.
Great movie. The word "Inception" will always be associated with this 2. They are showing this in theaters now again for said tenth anniversary and I happily took the chance to give it another watch, my third in fact and it definitely was not worse than my first or second. This is the kind of film that is indeed a lot better to be seen on the big screen, not only, but also because of the special effects. This movie won four Oscars, so also a big success with awards bodies, especially because it took home more awards and over more nominations and that is just what is listed here on imdb.
Still I remember many people outraged back then because the one thing it did not get was an Oscar nomination for Nolan himself as director despite getting in at pretty much every important precursor. However, now in , he also has his director nod and for this film here he got the writing nomination at least and that is absolutely alright because I think that the writing is the film's best aspect probably. Utter genius involved here and even more impressive if it was Nolan all on his own apparently.
No Oscar nominations for the cast here. I think the only one who was slightly considered was Marion Cotillard and I would have liked it. She was really good, but then again I am a fan of her anyway. But it wasn't meant to happen and that is perfectly fine.
She has one trophy already anyway, also did back then, which maybe helped her also in terms of getting cast here. She is one of several cast members that have worked with Nolan on other occasions before or after this movie, even if I think her portrayal in the final Batman film did not receive such positive acclaim overall. Oh well, others would be Murphy, Hardy and of course Michael Caine, who only has very little screen time here, two scenes and his second scene only lasts for a few seconds, but the first is really nice when his character meets the protagonist.
Then there's a few actors whose star has gone down a bit in the last 10 years since this movie was made. Murphy may fit the description too to some extent, but I mostly mean the younger folks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page. And Pete Postlethwaite is already dead for a few years, a bit sad knowing that now with how we see his character here dying too.
May he rest in peace. But speaking of JGL, his role here is a bit of an example why he would never make it big in Hollywood. His character so plays second fiddle to Leonardo DiCaprio that it was a bit embarrassing almost here and there and among the weaker components of the film. Take the very early part already how he is trying so hard to convince Watanabe's character, while Leo knows his value and is all smooth and cool. Or how JGL is the one being caught and used to put pressure on Cobb Leo and even gets a bullet in the head.
Or how he falls from the chair, kicked by Hardy I think, to elaborate on another phenomenon how people wake up from dreams. Oh yes, Watanabe I mentioned. Him I liked and like in general as an actor. I wish his character could have had more screen time to be honest, but his injury got in the way, but as we were sliding down the spheres, he gets better again.
Still a bit strange how he so effortlessly turns into good guy and part of the team while being the antagonist before that and also with no real knowledge on the subject accompanies the thieves in their crucial endeavor involving Murphy's character.
He was not really needed though. Another character who becomes part of the gang is Ellen Page's. She had some good moments and some not so good moments. Definitely not on par with the one other significant female character here, namely Cotillard's, but overall she is alright.
The conscience scene with the "people" looking at her with angry faces is among the most memorable of the entire film. How she pushes these huge mirrors in position to show us the concept of going deeper and deeper into the mind, layer by layer, was also really good.
But the idea that she really joins the gang too is already difficult to believe, but her return and talk about utter creation make me almost forget about it.
What I cannot forget, however, is her final idea to step down to the bottom layer where Watanabe's character is lost. They acted as if this layer was simply too tough to take and then minutes later they are like okay well no biggie, let's go there and fix everything.
To me, Inception is a minor miracle — a movie built fundamentally on nonsense, with a terrible script and enough plot holes to be a permanent tease — yet one that satisfies on every conceivable level. If Yusuf sped up the normal dose of Somnacin to be 20 times faster than real time instead of the typical 12 times, so that they could lucid dream three layers down, then technically the whole job only lasted about six minutes in reality, so what does the team do on the top level after the van crash for the roughly two weeks of dream time they have to fill up for the rest of the plane ride?
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