Movie Review: Inception3

by AJ Focht

Christopher Nolan’s Inception pushes its audience to delve into their own subconscious and question reality itself. The movie takes the audience on an adventure that has never been undergone before; a unique plot and intense action keep the story flowing unpredictably from start to finish.

Excessive praise aside, Inception is simply a must see movie. It is a key movie, much like Avatar, marking the film achievements of the last decade. Many people have been comparing it to The Matrix and with good reasoning. The story lines have a similar feel to them with the concept of diving into alternate realities.

While everyone else has been making the comparison to the Matrix based on a similarity in the story (and it is important to note it is a small similarity), I personally love the comparison because Inception will be the Matrix of the last decade. Both movies capped off a decade of film technology with a mind bending sci-fi story. Both are remarkable film achievements that worked off of an original story concept.

I really am trying to keep my praise to a minimum but the truth is Inception is deserving of every bit of it. Here are the basics for those who have not yet heard about Inception.

Inception is a film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan the director of The Dark Knight. The film stars an impressive cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordan-Levitt. In the movie there are people who are hired to go into the dreams of others and steal information and ideas. Cobb (DiCaprio) is offered a final job and chance to return to a family that had been isolated away from him. For this job Cobb needs to assemble a team to infiltrate a corporate tycoon’s mind.

Cobb seeks out a new dream architect Ariadne (Page) to build the dream worlds for him. The architect has the ability to change the dream worlds and adapt it to their own needs but many of the team questions why Cobb, once an elite architect, won’t design the dreams himself.

Oh noes spoilers! For all of you thinking that I just ruined your movie going experience by giving you a general overview of the movie, you can calm down. The movie is unlike anything you have experienced before and it is impossible to really spoil it. As Roger Ebert put it, “The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement.”

The movie is all about following Cobb through his journey; you cannot understand Inception until you understand its main character. The movie itself is a fight against reality and what you perceive as reality.
While I could sit here type for hours on the ground breaking storyline in Inception it would do no good. Until you have seen it, describing it would be like trying to tell someone why the Matrix was awesome. Some things just need to be seen to be understood, this one needs to be seen twice.