Never in my wildest dreams...

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2016)

Inception opened my eyes to the abstractions of a world manifested once we close our eyes. It is one of few films, like 'The Matrix' - to not dabble in the external, but refreshingly; to dive deeply within the internal psyche and extract the inner occult mysticism of the lesser- known self, something achingly overdue to be assessed and explored in film for a while now...
And what more could a film-goer pursue in a motion picture? It captivates everything that perfects cinematography. And it's not only aesthetically either, like so many other films; but in the rich, thought-provoking nature of its plot-line, superfluous acting, the shapeliness of its rising tension that comes to apex with such effortless majesty. Alas, from my first watch, it was stupendously clear this was not a film of bland ordinariness, no...
Inception takes in the 'beginning-and-end' introduction with a firm grasp on a plot that otherwise would be remarkably tedious, it shows how common criminals in all their 'real-world' sparsity to wield the arcane abilities to exercise great power through the exploitation of a realm that few are consciously aware of. Thus, hailing about the premise of a dream setting to host the niches of such a plot - with all the inflated, excitable ridiculousness that such a situation might hope to conjure with it. It does a fine job on the big screen, that's for sure - the big name actors are only complementary to that.
8.4/10