The Most Original and Entertaining Movie In a Long Time.

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2010)

Cobb, an operative trained in the art of manipulating the dreamland, is hired for a particularly difficult job involving Inception, implanting an idea into someone's mind, which many believe to be impossible.
When I first saw Inception I looked at it all wrong. I was focusing on the all of it's flaws while ignoring all of it's many gifts. Yes, many of the ideas in Inception don't make strict logical sense and some of the characters we've seen before but it doesn't matter. Some movies if you just check logic at the door you are in for the ride of the your life and this is one of the those movies.
The concept of infiltrating the dreamland and stealing information like some of sort of demented bank job is such a great idea with so many cinematic implications that it's a crime to just disregard it because is "doesn't make sense." Movies are meant to tell you an amazing story and let you escape the world for a while and Inception has that in spades. No other director is currently pushes the bounds of film like Christopher Nolan. He is a true visionary and I think many people are quick to discard him and say he is overrated. Whether you think he is overrated or not; he is consistently created original movie concepts and that's a very hard thing to do these days. Nolan also refused to shoot Inception in 3D as well; which I admire because that has quickly become Hollywood's go to big bucks gimmick.
In Inception, Nolan creates not only some of the best action scenes in recent history but some of the best all time. The way Nolan is able to weave a dream within a dream within a dream into a coherent scene is truly a wonder. It's mental Olympics just to keep up with all these narrative strands at one time but it's also a blast trying to solve this mind puzzle that flies at you at 100 miles per hour.
Inception isn't just strictly meaningless fun however. Inception deals deeply with memories and dreams and specifically how they can affect and warp the mind. The idea of functioning in a word where bad memories can come back to haunt you in a physical form is at once cinematic excellence and a Freudian psychological study.
Inception is not only the best movie of 2010 but a cinematic adventure to rival Raiders of the Lost Ark.
If Inception is a dream...I don't want to wake up.