Fantastic

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2015)

Inception is easily one of the most complex movies that I have ever watched in my entire life. It is apparent right off the bat how much thinking and effort must have been put in by writer and director Christopher Nolan in order to build such a structured plot. Nolan really did a phenomenal job in creating a film that really stimulates the audience to think. However, if you aren't constantly thinking and keeping up with what's going on in the film then you will lose touch with what is happening in the film in the beat of an eye. If focus is lost for even a few seconds that could leave the viewer lost and confused just because the plot is always being built upon and added to in some way throughout every second of the movie. One thing that might be harder than keeping track of the movie is explaining what it's about to others. As soon as I was finished watching the movie I tried to convince one of my friends to watch it by explaining what it's about, but I quickly realized that there's no way in doing Inception justice by trying to explain the plot and I just told her to go watch the movie. A lot of people I have talked to have told me that they had to watch the movie two or three times to be able to comprehend what the hell is going on.
With that being said, if the viewer is actually able to keep track of the plot it is awesome to see how the original plot is constantly added to and modified to bring it to the level of complexity that it holds. The starting scene in the movie is actually brought from towards the ending where the main character Dom is in an unending dream world know as limbo and he is trying to find the man that will eventually lead him back to his family. The rest of the movie after that scene explains how he got there. The movie goes in depth explaining the idea of invading other people's dreams and using that skill to manipulate them. This idea of traveling through other people's dreams and looking at how the different levels of dreams work and how these dreams relate back to the victims beliefs and experiences in real life is really just a mind blowing concept and is an awesome idea to think about. It probably took Chris Nolan years to get the storyline ready and finalized just looking at how interrelated some of the aspects of the plot are to each other. The complexity of the plot wasn't the only part that made this the great movie that it is though, the execution in the acting also definitely added to the movie's splendor. Leonardo DiCaprio played his role for Dom perfectly just like he does for any movie that he's in, and it is easy to see how much thought the director put into picking actors for the specific roles that he needed because pretty much every other actor fills their role perfectly even though they aren't exactly the biggest names in the industry. I think this is a very underrated quality in actors in Hollywood because an actor should not be chosen for a role based on how much weight their name carries but more so on the basis of how well their characteristics display what you want to be displayed for the character that they are playing. I think it's obvious that Nolan and his crew realize this and took it into accounting when doing auditions.
Inception definitely did a great job in bringing a new and original idea for a movie to the table and certainly reached its potential with the help of a great execution from the cast, directing, and other crew members. It was the first truly good, mind stimulating, and involving movie that I have seen in a while, and it gave me hope that maybe modern day movies aren't as bad as I thought they were and Hollywood still has the ability to entertain me.