Monday, August 9, 2010

Inception Movie Review!


Hello World! Today I have decided to try something new, which would be a movie review of Inception which I have very recently watched. This is also my first time doing a movie review, so please forgive me if I epically screw-up. Right, fingers-crossed let the reviewing begin!

First, I would like to say that Inception is one of the greatest films I have ever seen in a while, and would have been definitely been the best movie I've seen if not for Avatar, but hey, Avatar's in a league of its own. With breathtaking special effects to rival the Matrix, unthinkable plot twists, extremely awesome acting , a smattering of comedy and a bold ambiguous ending boldly thrown in Inception is definitely a movie people will remember for a long, long time.

In Inception, Leonardo DiCapario plays Cobb, an extractor who steals ideas from other people's minds through their dreams. Cobb is hired to extract an idea from a wealthy businessman, Saito, who turns the tables back and instead offers Cobb the supposedly never-before-done job of performing inception - the act of implanting an idea into a subject's mind. Cobb accepts the job on Saito's promise that he would use his influence to make a murder charge against Cobb disappear, allowing Cobb to return to the United States to be reunited with his family.

Cobb then goes on to recruit a group of specialised individuals, and together the team sets off to deep into Robert Fischer Jr.'s mind, heir to Saito's greatest rival energy company, to implant an idea that will cause Fischer to ultimately want to dissolve the company. After many plot twists the team manages to successfully finish the job, Saito honours his promise and Cobb is reunited with his family.

What I really like about the plot is that the film does not make the common mistake of revealing the mechanisms of the dream world and Cobb's plight in long monologues, but uses a careful injection of flashbacks and the interaction between the characters to reveal the plot. This not only keeps the audience glued onto the screen for the full 148 minutes of the movie, but also makes the audience pay close attention to every small little detail in the movie, which would be essential to fully understand the plot.

The special effects are also jaw-droppingly good, using the dream world as a cover to create impossible worlds beyond the wildest dreams. One classic scene I would remember for a long time would be the anti-gravity fight in Fischer's dream. While many movies have fight scenes where the characters manipulate gravity, in this scene there is NO gravity at all, and the entire hotel lobby also moves occasionally due to external factors, tossing the characters around and making that fight scene just so much more epic.

In conclusion , with scenes that make your heart miss a beat, scenes that leave your jaw hanging , scenes that make you secretly tear up and scenes that make you laugh out loud, Inception is definitely a movie worthy of watching and re-watching again and again.

Rating: 5/5 stars - Must Watch!

~Kevan




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