Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is The Extractor, 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.
Other team members include Joseph Gordon-Levitt as The Point Man, Ellen Page is The Architect, Cillian Murphy as The Mark and Ken Watanabe as The Tourist. Tom Hardy is The Forger. Marion Cotillard is described as The Shade.
Review: A visually interesting movie - by MrU
For those familiar with programming, the way Inception was constructed felt like a multi process program, where going "down one level" is like spawning a new process, "limbo state" is a zombie process or an infinite loop, the earthshakes that pass from one dream to another are like passing SIGHUP signals to the processes, etc.
The story was complicated to understand, definitely fell in the trap of its own rules (the math for the calculating the time didn''t match the time they spend in each dream), but ultimately that didnt really matter. I looked at it as an entertaining series of mini action movies, with the same cast of actors in all of them.
Watch it if you want to see a visually interesting movie and if you want to see a movie that will leave you scratching your head. And, by all means, avoid watching Salt.
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Review: the most mind blowing movie of this year – by Ghaith Semaan
Before going into plot and Nolan''s sick (meaning AMAZING) way of making you scratch your head, I would want to let the numbers speak for themselves...
USA Gross total up to August 13th, 2010 reached up to a little shy of quarter of a BILLION USD 240,514,000 to be exact. (according to Bob Office Mojo) As for the rest of the world, it did almost the same going a little higher to reach 252 million! Not a bad figure for a total of four weeks showing since the July 16th premier.
So, that being said. Some might start to wonder what kind of movie is capable of such feats. It is definitely not a Harry Pothead movie where it might gross a little over 300mill in the first week, yet, it is one of the most entertaining movies of this year and definitely the most mind blowing.
[spoilers ahead] The story follows the attempts of Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), a dream thief, in an attempt to come back to his children after mysteriously being cast out of the United States. In his last attempt, he agrees to do that one final job that can set thins right.
Yet, this time, instead of stealing an idea through a state of "shared" dreaming, he is instructed to plant one for the advantage of a certain power tycoon (Saito).
The movie leaves us leaping from roof top to roof top, running through narrow alleys, constantly ducking to avoid the debris of some blown up building or market or elevator. It deals with a very interesting concept and that is the construction and interpretation of the dream world. Layer after layer, dream upon dream, DiCaprio embarks on a journey to do the impossible, go into deeper states of dream within dream, plant the idea through a carefully instructed scenario, get out and go home. Sounds simple rather than impossible right? Well, the director Christopher Nolan tries and combines successfully the world of the Dark Knight with Momento and creates a movie in between both. He joins the "huh? what''s happening" effect of Momento, with the action sequence and climax build up of Dark Knight.
It might sound like a controlled environment when the dream is constructed by the architect and designed and played by a team of professionals. Yet, what happens when projections of Cobb''s own past, Maul and her suicidal and destructive instincts pop out... The result is a series of events that keeps you wondering what is really happening and who is really dreaming... Are they in reality or still in the dream state... you will never know...
This the biggest vice of the movie, you will never be sure... who is dreaming and when does this dream start and when does it end... or... does it?
Simply a must watch movie of the year... TWICE...
PS: the first few minutes of the movie are extremely important. Be sure to take that in mind while trying in vein to understand the movie!
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Review: Requires a lot of attention - by Anis Tabet
Like most of Christopher Nolan''s movies ("Memento", "The prestige"...), it will take your brain on a rollercoaster ride. The story is so beautifully crafted, that it''s almost impossible to find a plot hole.
So far this year, I haven''t seen a movie as perfect as "Inception". Even "Shutter Island" had its moments of weakness. Not the case in Nolan''s world; his movie is simply brilliant.
Leonardo Dicaprio is perfectly cast as Dom Cobb, a skilled thief with the power to extract valuable information from deep within the subconscious during the dream state. In his final job, he is asked to plant an idea rather than steal it. And this is where the fun begins. With perfectly designed dreams, we are taken into a world beyond our imagination. I don''t think anyone could have pulled this off better than Nolan. His vision has no limits. And it''s easy to see why; "Inception" is definetly the best movie of the year so far.