Christopher Nolan proves that he's definitely one of the top directors of our day.

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2010)

After months of disappointing remakes, sequels, and big budget CGI fests that were badly written. (Avatar comes to mind.) I am happy to say that one director, Christopher Nolan, proves that story always triumphs over eye candy, with his latest flick, Inception.
Two years after breaking box office records, with his previous flick, Christopher Nolan returns with a vengeance, with his latest film, Inception, which isn't a sequel at all, but an entirely original idea.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief who specializes in a "special kind of security" that of the mind. He and his team of specialists are given a task by a CEO named Saito, played by Ken Wattanabe, of not extracting information from a young CEO, Robert Fischer, played by Cillian Murphy. Normally I find DiCaprio to be annoying in many of his films, but here, he doesn't overact, and I think it's good to finally see DiCaprio in a film that isn't directed by Martin Scorsese for a change.
Cobb's team goes deeper and deeper into Fischer's subconscious when Saito is shot, which means if he dies, that person may never wake up. The layers include, a hotel battle without any gravity, a slowly falling van off of a bridge, a battle in an arctic layer, and a beach filled with crumbling buildings. In each layer, Cobb must battle with his own personal demons, including his wife, Mal, played by Marion Cotillard. Who may or may not be what she seems.
I understand that this film will be quite confusing to many viewers, including the ending, which may seem quite on the upbeat side, until you realize it also may not be what it really seems.
All I can tell you about this film is that it will be discussed for many years, with people debating on what is real and what is not real, sort of what happened with the Matrix craze during the 1990s.
Inception, the latest masterpiece from director, Christopher Nolan.
James Cameron, THIS is how you make a movie!