Review for inception

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2010)

If you are looking for a science-fiction thriller, this is the movie to take you on the ride. With an incredible cast and suspenseful plot line, it might be the movie to see for this year. Amy Biancolli of the San Francisco Chronicle describes it as "...spellbinding, transporting, ..near indescribable."
The story begins in a futuristic society where a company has discovered technology to create dreams inside of other peoples mind. This may sound pretty far-fetched, but it makes for a good story anyway. As you could imagine, creating dreams must mean some pretty nice special effects. That assumption would be correct. There is hardly a scene without a special effect in this fast paced thriller. The main character is a man who is struggling in life, because he had lost his wife and had not been able to see his two children for years, because he was not allowed in the United States. In the story the main character, Dom, found a man who said he could use his connections to get Dom legally allowed in the United States again. Dom gladly accepted the offer because he wished to see his children so badly.
The man requested Dom's help with planting an idea in a person's mind. Dom had never planted an idea like this before, however. The man hiring Dom, Mr. Saito, was a business rival of a man named Mr. Fischer. Mr. Fischer had a huge business empire that Mr. Saito would like to have dissolved, so Saito hires Dom to plant the idea in Mr. Fischer's mind that his father did not want him to continue with the company.
With some amazing stunts, and three (maybe four) different layers of dreaming of dreams, Dom is able to complete his assignment. However, Mr. Saito and Dom do not make it out of the dreams alive, meaning they spend hundreds of years in some sort of state referred to as 'limbo.' After serving their time, Saito calls in a favor so that Dom can return to his children in the United States. The last scene is that of Dom returning home to his children. He has a trinket that he always takes with him to decipher dream from reality; it is a spinning top. He spins it on the table then walks away to greet his children. It is unclear if it is reality or simply another dream, but the scene cuts to black regardless.
This movie has good music for all of its scenes, an unparalled plot, cool special effects, and is something completely unexpected. Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times said in an article "It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for "Inception." That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire."
I could believe that Nolan spent ten years working on it because it's such a complex and complicated story. On top of that, it deals with things that are hard to perceive, such as the concept of a dreamer having a dream within a dream within a dream. But even with all this going on, the plot is a bit lacking. Perhaps the movie could have been made better with the author cultivating the story a bit more, to make it a bit more perfect.