The best film of 2010

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2011)

Following Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb and his team (including scene stealing Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur) through a multilayered dreamscape is a thrill for the mind and the eye. Starring in this bond meets the matrix adventure along with Leonardo and Joseph is Ellen Page, Tom Hardy and Ken Watanbe. Inception is written and directed by Chris Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
The story follows a team of what I would call dream spies. It begins as they are attempting to extract information from the subconscious of a target, Saito (Ken Watanbe). But things don't go quite as planned, the target is more aware of the team's special skills than they realize. The dreamscape crumbles around them and the participants awaken, minus a team member.
Saito (still possessing the unknown information) propositions the team to stretch their abilities and go beyond extracting information to planting information in the subconscious. Can this be done; can a thought introduced by another be accepted as one's own? Needing a new team, Cobb and Arthur must recruit the skills of a talented college student, Ariadne (Ellen Page) and an experienced forger, Eames (Tom Hardy) to attempt the task. Together they embark on a journey that will take them not only into the deepest recesses of the new target's mind but their own as well.
The look of the dream world is real yet pliable to the workings of a dream architect. This is where the special effects add depth to an interesting story. The idea of manipulating space and time is exciting. It's like being able to take a painter's brush to the world. The effects make you believe you are exactly where the characters say you are. If Arthur tells you that it takes 3 minutes for something to fall, in the dreamscape time slows enough to watch each nano second pass.
Inception is a mind bending ride full of twist, turns, ups and downs. I enjoyed every minute of it.
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