Is this real or am I still dreaming?
This could be one of your many reactions after watching the movie "Inception"!
Someone wrote as his Facebook status that the movie cannot be described ... it can only be experienced. Well that's true!
So folks, fasten your seat-belts, make sure you are properly seated, sit tight and concentrate: you are in for one helluva ride!! Dreams within dreams, layers within layers, mazes within labyrinths, a whole new world created by your subconscious - something which your conscious mind is usually incapable of. And when it's all over, you are so unsure of your own 'reality'.... you tend to ask: am I still dreaming?
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) has this extra-ordinary skill of accessing people's minds through their dreams and extracting ideas that can then be sold to the bidder. His team is trained to create dreams and sharing it with the one whose mind is to be read. The technology to do so is futuristic. After an unsuccessful attempt to steal an idea from the owner, Saito (Ken Watanabe), of a corporation and failing to deliver it to the corporation (Cobol Electrical), Cobb and his teammate decide to run away and hide. Saito offers them to redeem themselves by working for him. But this time, they are not going for an extraction but for an inception! The stakes go sky high when Cobb is given the job to place an idea in the mind of Robert Fischer, Jr. (Cillian Murphy) of dissolving his father's (Fischer's) company, after his death, to stop it from becoming a monopolistic single corporation in energy. Cobb wisely chooses his team that includes an architect Ariadne (Ellen Page), a potion-maker Yusuf (Dileep Rao), and a forger, Eames (Tom Hardy). With the combined efforts of the team they are to deliver the idea in a mind which, to their horror, is trained to defend itself even in the subconscious!
Moreover, Cobb's insistent problems of his past haunt him, and threatens to ruin him and his whole team by playing havoc in the most dangerous mission, with the ominous possibility of getting trapped in the dream forever!
Thrills, nail biting suspense, edge-of-the seat action, a script that keeps on your toes, and amazing performances: these are some of the facets that make this film what it is.... a blockbuster! And of course above all and beneath everything, it's the idea that brought the Inception. As one user review in IMDB states, it definitely is "[Christopher] Nolan at his most intelligent best".
I give it 5 out of 5! Wish I could give more!
Don't miss it!! :)
