Confusing, yet fantastically brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2012)

Around half a year before watching this movie I had watched Leonardo DiCaprio's other film: Shutter Island, which I absolutely loved. Hearing that Inception was similar, I decided to view it. After having now seen it, I found it completely different, and massively confusing, but I understood enough of it to realise its brilliance. The idea of undercover operatives stealing or planting ideas in peoples dreams seems simple enough, but Nolan has found a way to make it incredibly complex. DiCaprio and a number of accomplices journey into a dream, within a dream, within a dream, offering the opportunity to have several heart racing action sequences all at once, as well as some deeply emotional scenes, involving DiCaprio's character's shadowy past. I would describe the first third of the movie as trying to understand what the **** is going on, the middle third as you continuously sitting on the edge of your seat (this is a figure of speech, but I actually did this) and the final third of you trying to work out how the film will conclude. Those who have seen Shutter Island will understand what I mean when I say this: the final shot of the two films are very similar, not quite showing you enough to know what will happen next, but leaving the ending as a very open cliffhanger. Anyway I highly recommend this movie to those who have an open mind, and don't complain if they don't understand the whole thing, because anyone can understand the best parts of this movie: One of DiCaprio's finest.