INCEPTION 4.0****


“Inception" is near “perfection” and a rare “exception” to the usual intellectual action type film. It is an excellent and breathtaking movie that may be one of the only films released so far this summer that lives up to its hype. It is a highly original film that holds your attention until the ending credits roll.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a genius when it comes to dreams and the subconscious and how they can be manipulated in the most amazingly spectacular way. He, with the help of a remarkable team of sleep/dream experts, works his way into people's dreams and their subconscious and steals what people value most, ideas, and does so without them knowing about it. In this, his last assignment to possibly clear his name ( he has been charged with the death of his wife) he is assigned not to steal an idea from someone, but rather to plant an idea inside that person's mind. The idea to be planted could change the world in many ways… most of them positive..some of them lucrative to the person hiring Cobb who has the power to clear him of the pending charges.

Inception has a multi-layered plot, and I mean this quite literally. It focuses not only on the emotional turmoil of the lead character, Cobb, but at the same time thrusts the audience into multiple levels of action that often are happening simultaneously….with each level very distinct from the other, but all finely connected. Director Christopher Nolan ( “The Dark Knight”, “The Prestige”, Memento”), who also wrote the screenplay, challenges the audience to keep up, and rewards those who can with a breathtaking spectacle, one that has the capability of leaving you awe-struck.

There is a star-studded cast, includingf Leonardo Dicaprio ( “Shutter Island’,”The Departed”), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“500 Days Of Summer”), Ellen Page (“Juno”), Marion Cotillard ( “La vie en rose”, “Public Enemies”, “Nine”), Cillian Murphy ( “Redeye’, “Batman Begins”), and Michael Caine ( “Batman Begins”, “The Dark Knight”), along with some amazing photography, special effects, and thrilling music provided by none other than Hans Zimmer, who was also set the mood for Nolan's previous film, The Dark Knight”.

The final hour of the film is possibly one of the most complicated but fascinating action sequences ever put on film. You have to constantly be paying attention to all of the layers of what’s happening . And without spoiling anything, what this film is about, and what makes this film so great, is the layers….the dreams within a dream that are simultaneously occurring.. Once you have seen this you will know what I am talking about.

Please note that you must to go to this movie prepared to think, to use your intellect ,so that you can meet the many challenges presented by such a complicated story…but by doing so you can fully enjoy the many dimensions of this remarkable film.