INCEPTION (2010)

[docm]

We saw the long trailer in the theater and OH-MY-GOD!!!!

Opens: July 16, 2010

Tagline: Your mind is the scene of the crime

Tomatometer: 95%

Director/Writer: Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, TDK, Prestige, Memento)

Dom Cobb: Leonardo DiCaprio

also: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy (soon to be Mad Max), Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe and Tom Berenger

Synopsis: Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.

Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible: inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

 

[JasonChapman]

I have just watched a half hour special on this film, It does look good, however the only hang up I have is the director claiming that the dream sharing storyline was a totally new concept, not true, Dreamscape 1984 explored the idea of shared dreams and how you could steal secrets and kill people, not a bad film if you like those low budget scifi flicks

 

[Mee_n_Mac]

I have just watched a half hour special on this film, It does look good, however the only hang up I have is the director claiming that the dream sharing storyline was a totally new concept, not true, Dreamscape 1984 explored the idea of shared dreams and how you could steal secrets and kill people, not a bad film if you like those low budget scifi flicks

And there was The Cell and prolly a dozen slasher type flicks ...

 

[docm]

Roger Ebert has weighed in.....

Inception * * * * (of 4)

BY ROGER EBERT / July 14, 2010
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Warner Brothers presents a film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Running time: 148 minutes. MPAA rating: PG-13 (for sequences of violence and action throughout).
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It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for "Inception." That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. The film's hero tests a young architect by challenging her to create a maze, and Nolan tests us with his own dazzling maze. We have to trust him that he can lead us through, because much of the time we're lost and disoriented. Nolan must have rewritten this story time and again, finding that every change had a ripple effect down through the whole fabric.

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 process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It's a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his "Memento" (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backwards.

Like the hero of that film, the viewer of "Inception" is adrift in time and experience. We can never even be quite sure what the relationship between dream time and real time is. The hero explains that you can never remember the beginning of a dream, and that dreams that seem to cover hours may only last a short time. Yes, but you don't know that when you’re dreaming. And what if you're inside another man's dream? How does your dream time synch with his? What do you really know?
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"Inception" works for the viewer, in a way, like the world itself worked for Leonard, the hero of "Memento." We are always in the Now. We have made some notes while getting Here, but we are not quite sure where Here is. Yet matters of life, death and the heart are involved--oh, and those multi-national corporations, of course. And Nolan doesn't pause before using well-crafted scenes from spycraft or espionage, including a clever scheme on board a 747 (even explaining why it must be a 747).

The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. "Inception" does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in "Memento:" How does a man with short-term memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there's a hole in "Inception" too, but I can't find it. Christopher Nolan reinvented "Batman." This time he isn't reinventing anything. Yet few directors will attempt to recycle "Inception." I think when Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.

 

[FlatEarth]

I saw the movie yesterday and enjoyed it quite a bit. It does run a little long, as other Nolan movies do in my opinion, but not so much that the experience is ruined. It takes a bit of concentration to stay with the layers of reality, but in the end I felt it was rewarding. It gets a thumbs up from me.

 

[AaronJohnson]

I was dissapointed in the movie. It deserves credit for bieng a blockbuster which has an interesting premise, but unfortunatelly it really did nothing with it. The action scenes weren't up to much and you got the impression every one was invincible. I can understand the need to est up the game rules, but it did lead to a longer than needed film.

They really could have done more with a fantastic idea, but at least it wasn't another comic book sequel.

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[ZiraldoAerospace]

It was pretty good, not as profound as the Matrix, which many people compared it to. It was a little more flashy but I think the Matrix had a bit more urgency in it that was perhaps lacking in this movie... But it was still definitely worth seeing in the theater as it is 100 times better than anything else nowadays...

 

[Gravity_Ray]

Just saw the movie this weekend. (a bit of a spoiler below)

My wife was lost in the first 5 minutes of the movie and never recovered from that, and by the end she was bored out of her mind. She is not the sci-fi/fantasy type. I on the other hand enjoyed it. I agree that it was no Matrix, but it was original and complicated and it took some concentration to follow the story.

It isnt quite dreamscape (I saw that one too). Its the same concept but it does take a different turn with the inception model rather than just stealing ideas from the mind of the victim.

The only thing that would have made it better for me is for the DiCaprio character to have died at the end. It should have ended that way. As it is it had a bit of the Oceans Eleven flavor at the end. Should have been darker.