Absolutely Perfectly Brilliant!!!

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2010)

My goodness me is this a fantastically terrific movie!! I watched this movie in August and here I am now in November and I am still in awe of it! Christopher Nolan has delivered yet anther mesmerizing masterpiece and while I can write pages and pages of it, I realize this is a complex movie with many long reviews so I will try and keep this short...ish.
Inception tells the the story of Cobb (DiCaprio) who along with his team builds dreams. They then place their subject into that dream and allow them to "fill it with their secrets". That's about as simply as I can explain it because you can imagine that once that dream is filled, the manipulation Cobb can do is endless. Cobb gets enlisted to perform 'inception' on a high profile figure i.e: place an idea into the subject through placing them in a dream you created for them. The movie basically follows the protagonists in their mission all the while showing Cobb try to deal with the trauma in his life. That's all say about the storyline as I don't want to give too much away.
The positive points for this movie are endless. Firstly, the acting! Leonardo DiCaprio has matured into IMO the finest actor of his generation and his performance in Inception is truly outstanding, riveting, emotional, deep and definitely for me deserves the Best Actor Oscar! The rest of the cast pull in equally terrific performances which makes this one of the best acted films I have seen (and I have watched all the legends at their peak!). Secondly, the effects are jaw-dropping. Forget the Matrix "rip-offs" and what other nonsense the few negative reviews claim; the effects will leave you spellbound and completely make this movie a masterpiece. Thirdly, Hans Zimmer pulls in with a terrific score which captures the feel of the movie incredibly well and masterfully aids in building emotion where needed. Fourthly, the storyline is absolutely original and perfectly woven and told! Make no mistake, this is a complex movie with complex themes but with a fair bit of concentration, you will absolutely love it! I could go on and on...and so I shall; fifthly, the ending is utterly brilliant and will leave you reeling and thinking long after this movie ends (as it did with me!).
I have long waited for a movie of such high caliber and this blew my expectations right out the door and set new ones at a stratospheric level! If this movie does not get Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor in the next Oscars, I will completely denounce the Oscars as a hoax! This movie is still playing in some theaters so I beg you, do yourself a favor and go see this; a movie which will definitely live to earn legendary status. All the hype is in fact underrated and you will not be disappointed no matter how high your expectations are! If there was a score of more than 10/10, I would give it. My only wish is that Nolan never stops making movies!
P.S. If you want to see a really good trailer of it, check out Inception Trailer 2 on youtube!