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Inception
In 2008 Christopher Nolan raised critic’s and audience’s expectations by redefining the superhero genre with his second outing of Batman in “The Dark Knight”. While many thought it would be a challenge to match the depth and resonance of that film, it seems as if Nolan has effortlessly followed up with an equally engaging story that walks the line between what we define as reality and the untapped area of our minds that exist in dreams.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Cobb, the best dream-thief in existence and a man with a reason to want out of the game. With his long-time partner Arthur(Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he has made a career of weaving his way in and out of the dreams of various individuals whom he has been hired to extract information from. In the dream world he is able to go into the mind’s eye and learn vital, private information about the mark’s life and then deliver that to his employer for a hefty sum in return. Wanting badly to return to a normal life with his children, Cobb is enlisted by Saito(Ken Watanabe) to complete one final dream-heist, but with a different twist. Instead of stealing something from an individual, Saito needs Cobb to put together a team capable of inception, ultimately planting an idea within someone’s mind to make it seem like their own. The intricacies involved in something like this have apparently never been successfully completed, but reluctantly Cobb finds the members for this unique job and sets out to traverse dreams within a dream and take the ultimate risk in order to gain back the life he once had.
The performances are stellar from top to bottom, so picking out just one actor’s accomplishments here would be a crime to the others. Everyone seems to have brought their “A” game for Nolan’s recent outing, including Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard. The more deserving of praise should really belong to the story, which Nolan himself wrote. Never does the plot seem predictable, nor the action reminiscent of something we’ve seen before in other films. This truly is a unique world which he has crafted and it is a visually delightful experience as well as an intellectually stimulating jolt to the system.
Now for the kids, this is definitely one I’d want to get a babysitter for. Some of the content will be too harsh for them, but above all this is a thinking man’s movie and it would probably lose them within the first 5 minutes. Some teens are going to be able to grasp the concept and really enjoy it, but for the small ones it would be a confusing trip to the theatre.
In short, it’s rare for a summer film to entertain the whole way through and still have a top-notch cast to boot, but “Inception” takes things a step further and gives us Academy Award winning quality filmmaking in the middle of a season normally reserved for mindless action popcorn flicks. I already have a space reserved on my “Best of 2010” list for this instant classic, and I can’t wait to experience the world again.
Grade: A+
Posted on 16 Jul 2010 by Woodlands Family Magazine
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