Directed by : Christopher Nolan.
Starring : Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page
Inception was the most awaited movie of 2010. There were two reasons for this. One Christopher Nolan and second Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nolan is perhaps one of the most talented directors in Hollywood, what with releases like the ground breaking Memento and Batman series (Batman begins and The Dark Knight) and Caprio (Titanic, Shutter Island ) is, one of the most celebrated actor. Their movie was bound to be explosive. Throw in a couple of fine actors like Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page and the dish becomes lip smacking delicious.
Inception not only fulfills the high expectations, very stylishly, but also exceeds them with a hurricane of a movie. The movie talks about a time in future when entering and doctoring dreams is possible due to technology. You can have a shared dream and remember it on waking up. You can not only construct a dream in your waking moments but also do improvisations while actually in the dream. Once this initial premise is out of the way, the movie takes you in its stride.
Caprio is a specialist in stealing information from the people's subconscious, by entering their dream, with Gordon levitt, his partner. After one such failed heist, their subject of robbery (Ken Watanbee) gives them an offer. Instead of stealing an idea from someone's mind, he wants to put and idea into somebody's mind. Inception, rather than deception becomes the theme after that.
Caprio accepts that offer because he, being a fugitive (for supposedly killing his wife), has not been with his children for a long time and asks for all charges removed from his name as his incentive for the job. He then puts together and team and the adventure begins.
The movie puts out an entirely new lexicon of jobs like "Architect" of dream, "Chemist", who gives sedatives to put you in deep slumber, "The Forger", who constructs the dream. Nolan spreads the pieces and takes 50 min. to set the movie up. So you can imagine how impossible it is to describe it in a one page review.
There are countless moments in the movie which will leave your jaw hanging in "shock and awe".
Especially the ones where Caprio teaches Page the basics of dream constructs, gordon's fight in zero gravity, the world when viewed in the state of "limbo". One set piece after another will take your breath away.
The movie is AMAZING. There is no other word to describe it. The cinematography is astoundingly beautiful and Hans Zimmer's music is haunting. The story is layered and multi dimensional. The characters are well thought out and the special effects are mind blowing. You havent seen anything like this in the past 10 years. And apart from MATRIX (1999), there are not many peers to the movie as well.
Easily the best movie of the decade. If you havent seen it already, you are missing something huge. Go for it, already.
Rating: 9.5/10
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