Can a movie get any better than being an experience?

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2010)

Inception was one of those movies after which you are left with not only an amazingly exciting feeling, but the feeling that you experienced a film instead of merely viewed it. Granted, being directed by Christopher Nolan, this is hardly a surprise. The viewer follows Dom Cobb, and expert in idea extraction during sleep, in other words idea theft. After accepting a proposition, Cobb assembles team who will use Inception to PLANT an idea in one's subconscious during their sleep. The general idea of the movie is simple, but when you add Cobb's previous experience with inception, complications with the sleep subject, Cobb's memories and obsessions, and the actual execution of the team's plan, the plot gets deeper and more complicated. Director Nolan gives us bits and pieces of information throughout the film about what the idea is that will be incepted and why, but how inception is actually achieved is the whole point and excitement of the experience. Inception will most certainly require multiple viewings because it is impossible to understand every detail during the first time around. Plus, it's just great to see the film again and again. There are some slow parts during explanation of certain things and the movie borrows mildly from The Matrix, but those are mild hiccups during the road of adventure. Not one scene is out of place, each love scene is completely appropriate, the action was well-paced and not just included for the sake of action, and the running time was perfect. Even the acting was well done for a sci-fi action picture. All in all, I was left with a total sense of viewing completion and satisfaction. This movie is a pivotal point in my movie-watching history because for me, the level of enjoyment of any movie I see in the future will be judged against and compared to the incredible level of enjoyment I experienced during Inception.