Very clever movie.

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2010)

I had to see Nolan's movie in the cinema, so I did yesterday, like I saw The Prestige and the batman movies also in the cinema. Movies that are worth watching over and over, but the first time you have to see it on big screen.
I cannot leave some spoilers behind, so if you haven't seen this movie, don't reed further! Inception is about entering some person's mind while this person is asleep. Nolan goes a bit further than this. People in this movie enters a dream in a dream and much further to get information they need. That's it! Now that sounds a bit like The Matrix, but it isn't. Inception is nothing like The Prestige. The Prestige was from the beginning to the end very exciting and far more clever than Inception. But Inception on the other hand has more action than the Prestige has to offer.
The first half of the movie DiCaprio selects a team to enter Robert Fischer's (played by the handsome Cillian Murphy) mind. Here Nolan explains what the Inception is, but he tells as much as he wants you to know. And, like in the Prestige, you find out that you see a lot, but don't know a thing. That's why this is a movie you have to watch a second time.
The ending was like Total Recall. Are you still in a dream? Or are you awake? When the movie was finished, I heard some people say that it was a very difficult movie to make, to go through three dreams of a person. I thought at the end we were in the fifth dream. Was that the deal Cobb made with Saito? I'll explain why I think it was the fifth dream: Cobb did not great his partners when he was at the airport. His kids were not at grandmother's house, but at his own house. The first he saw his kids, it was just like in his dreams.
So I like it that Leonardo chooses to get those dark roles to play. I liked Inception more than Shutter Island. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was quite a surprise. I didn't think much of this guy as an actor. When I was little I saw him play in The Juror (1996). I didn't whether he was a boy or a girl. This young actor did his job very well in Inception. I'm glad he got (and took) the chance to be in this movie. He was the cherry on the pie. He controls his acting. Marion Cotillard scared the hell out of me. I didn't like this character. There was something wrong with her, and at the end, there was really something wrong with her.
It was a pity that Michael Caine had a small part to play, but seeing The prestige and the batman movies it was fun to see him anyway in this movie.
I'm sure I have to see this movie a few more times. It will keep me busy while waiting for Nolan's next movie. But if Nolan will keep it up like this, the list of the top 250 movies all time on IMDb will be filled with his movies. If I'm not mistaken, he has 5 movies now in that list. There is no one who can say the same.