An Action-filled Adventure through each Level

Rating: 10/10 (9 September 2015)

This movie fails to disappoint when it comes to an amazing sci-fi action thriller. Full of action and suspense, this film not only gets your heart racing and blood pumping, but gets your brain working as well, for this movie is not enjoyable unless you understand the concept and science.
Inception is the theory that an Extractor, like Cobb (DiCaprio), can input an idea into the subconscious mind of a subject at dream state. By implementing this idea, one could then control the subject throughout the dream(s) in order to manipulate him/her to reach a desired result, secret, or thought in the end, in hopes to somehow altar reality. In Cobb's case, it's the input of an idea into Fisher's (Murphy) mind in order to somehow bring down his father's multi-million dollar empire, so that Cobb can go home and see his kids again.
FYI: Cobb is a wanted man for espionage and the possible involvement in Mal's death.
The Architect (Page) then builds a series of levels, or dreams within a dream, in order to reach deeper into the subject's subconscious. Due to security purposes, a team member is left behind in each level to look after the others, in case projections, the people in the dream placed by the subject's subconscious, attack. This happens when the extractor rolls off the course of the dream or when the subject realizes they're in a dream.
Every time you enter a new dream, time in the real world slows down in comparison to the dream world, like so:
1 minute in reality is 1 hour in level 1, 1 day in level 2, 1 month in level 3, and so on and so forth.
In order to return to reality, the character must somehow kill themselves. However, if one were to dive too deep into the mind, a "kick" is required for each person in the dream to move back to the previous level.This occurs in sequence until you return to the real world, or else you fall into a state of Limbo, and wander the dream until you find a way out.
Cobb's past is what I feel like the story builds itself on. Unless Cobb learns that the Mal (his wife) he sees in these dreams isn't the real one (cuz she's dead), the whole dream will collapse.
This film is not only an amazing action thriller, but a deep, well- minded psychological drama as well. The characters must think in order to move to the next step, and synchronize their parts at the right time. This thought process is what makes me see not only a man wanting to see his kids again, but a team working together to make it happen, which is why I recommend this movie to you, the reader of this review.