We All Should Have Seen This Coming

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2010)

All it takes is a viewing of the cult classic Memento to see the Christopher Nolan is a genius auteur. What James Cameron is to visual effects, Christopher Nolan is to storytelling. One can only imagine what Batman 3 will bring us. One thing is for sure, Nolan has set the bar so high that, for him to beat expectations would undoubtedly solidify his name as one of the greatest directors in history.
In Inception, the characters are unique, troubled, three dimensional, mysterious, and engaging. Nolan has a knack for casting top actors in commercially viable movies (a rarity these days as studios commonly cast a cheap actor or model with a pretty face to partake in an action tent pole extravaganza with one distracting explosion after another. Somehow, Nolan is able to successfully navigate the tent pole system in, one might argue, the exact opposite execution of one Michael Bay.