Inception

Inception

Directed By: Christopher Nolan

Written By: Christopher Nolan

Produced By:Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottilard, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Tom Berenger,

Plot: Dom Cobb is a theif of the mind. He goes into people's subconcsious and extracts information required by whoever employs him. When he is offered the chance to return home after being pursued my numerous agencies, he jumps at the chance, only to find that he must not steal information, instead to plant an idea in a man's mind.

Inception has many levels of complication throughout the story, but has tongue in cheek moments throughout most of the film, whilst still maintaining a very serious atmosphere. Because the majority of the film is set within the mind, it could have easily been ruined by adding ridiculous themes and events into the storyline, because most normal dreams don't make any sense, so Christopher Nolan has been smart enough to keep the dreams themselves very sharp and realistic to save the film from becoming a farce.

However, I do feel that whilst Nolan has written a superb script, equipped with spectacular special effects and a terrific cast, the film lacks raw emotion, we do not get to see how any of the other characters feel about the events that are unfolding around them because the film is centred around Cobb.

This is not a film you can simply watch from any point, you have to watch it entirely to the credits, otherwise the experience and the effect that the story has on you is completely lost. Most of the things included in the film as brilliant and spectacular (Joseph Gordon-Levitts rotating corridor fight) whilst others are amusing, but simply pointless (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page's quick kiss) thus having no real reason for its input in the film. If the characters had more depth and had a little more focus on them then the film would have been benefited greatly.

But the concept of Inception, is completely mindblowing. A dream, within a dream, within a dream. This idea is fantastic and comes across plausible in the film without seeming ridiculous. The story is rather honest, and the last hour is spent wondering, how are they going to pull it off? The way in which Christopher Nolan rounds up his film is brilliant. And the last scene is completely up for debate, not having any real answers revealed, it is left up to us what has actually happened. Some people prefer the idea of a happy ending, but some people prefer the serious ending, but I won't give anything away.

Inception is a spectacle to be marveled at, and is one of the best films to have been released in the lastten years.

Written By Eammon Jacobs