Nolan at a new level...

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2010)

Inception 9/10
Plot: I'm not sure about it, but its something like this. Leo is a specialist dream extraction. He generally employed by people to extract info from someone's subconscious mind. Now this guy Sato wants him to plant an idea (rather extracting) in the victims mind. What happens next is the story. Or better say how the things happen next is the story. (I hope there is no spoiler in it.)
Acting: Leo is brilliant, as I already told, he's getting favorite choice for weird movies. Rest of the casting Joseph Gordon-Levitt (of 500 Days of Summer), Ellen Page (of Hard Candy) are a few of new recruits. Rest of the casting is from Nolan's trusted group of actors. Apart from Leo, I somehow can't handpick anyone else to place next to him. Everyone did awesome...
Directing: This is whole new Nolan. U've experienced this level of Nolan when u saw Memento, but with Inception he just surpassed every prediction, every expectation ever made of him. IMO, he is adopting David Lynch style only he cared to explain things. Please watch this movie to believe what Nolan is. Kudos to him.
Cinematography/Spl. effects: Cinematography is good. Special effects needs a special mention. They never seemed bigger than the story, blended properly, not outrageous.
On the whole dream was never analyzed this way before, yes u will find similarities with Matrix, Dark City (A scene of houses falling into sea, reminded me of it) and a few other movies. But the movies mentioned tried it superficially and Nolan went deep; levels of dream, timeline, dream within dream within dream (and that is not mistakenly repeated), architecture etc. whooooooo........I need to see it once more. If "Shutter Island" made u think that was a brainfcuk movie, then, ya...prepare for a brainsmashing one.