Inception Review

So, I finally got to see this after seeing the teaser trailer back in May of last year.  The teaser gave away nothing other than some very quick glimpses of the big scenes.  It gave the feeling that this film would be something big, that Nolan wouldn't disappoint after The Dark Knight!  After a summer of "meh" remakes, reboots and sequels a lot of people were banking on this film to save the season....









.....Expectations were through the roof for this one.....












...and I fuckin' loved it! I wasn't disappointed one single bit, the entire film length had me gripped from the Warner Bros. logo right up to the end credits. Whatever about Avatar, this was one hell of a visual and audio feast!! Fùck bigger effects, THIS is how you make a film with practical story-telling and set-pieces. Spoiler: When Leo is explaining to Cillian Murphy why the hotel bar is shifting in gravity Nolan actually built a hydraulic set to show this couple of seconds.............that's what I love about him, he doesn't think CGI will cure everything.

This film is a bit hard to explain it's plot without revealing too many spoilers so I'll try my best.  It's about Leo and his team who have the technology to enter people's dreams.  From there they extract information and sell it to people, essentially making them robbers.  In this film they're asked to do something incredibly difficult, instead of stealing an idea they must plant one in someone's head.  It's seems odd but it works, especially since the team have to operate at different levels of consiousness at the same time..................yea, it'll make more sense when you see it.

To be honest, leading up to this film I was worried from bad reviews as they all agreed that this was an emotionless, hard film to follow..............but I had zero problems keeping up and I got stuck sitting to the far left of the cinema so there were times were the music would drown out the dialogue sometimes. But even then I still knew what the characters were on about.

The actors were flawless in this, Leo gave his usual high-grade performance but Tom Hardy was the most enjoyable as "The Forger"  (A guy who pretends to represent someone in another's dream) and will probably be the most memorable character from the movie.  Remember, this is the same guy who's gonna be the new Mad Max.

The set-pieces were incredible, when the team's job kicks in it doesn't let up as the action set-pieces stretches across different layers of the concious mind, all operating at the same time but at different time speeds.  If it sounds a bit brain-melting, it is, but dammit it's enjoyable and bloody well done.

It's not flawless and there are some plot-holes but, really, Nolan out did himself and gave us a smart blockbuster film that actually rewards the brain. Hans Zimmer is also on top-form as usual, that man's head is a bottomless pit for pulling out excellent soundtracks! My biggest gripe with the film is that it ended. You won't find the 2 and 1/2 hours fly by.

If anything, I really need to see this film again to have a proper, detailed judgement on it. It's a hard film to give a final verdict on after one viewing as there's plenty of things you'll be mulling over after you've seen it.  But I still think now it's one of the best films this year, a proper smart blockbuster not seen since The Matrix (That's where similarities end with these 2 films)

Do youself a favour and go see this film, it's what the cinema-going experience is all about!

2 fuckin' thumbs up, bro!!