Inception: Part 1, and Part 2 !

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2011)

Some are possessed of the movie. I'm not. Let's see why.
It's The Matrix meets J. I. Goe (the bad movie, not the TV show!). At the first half, there is one wild and fascinating world, that we didn't see much before, with gripping special details. Then, the whole second half is ill with vacuum and bore. Sometimes it felt like trashy bang bang flick. The shootout at the snow was provocatively vague and long to the extent that I wanted to sleep. The dream within a dream within a dream within a dream status aimed at complicated distinct suspense, but ended up as nearly confusing and too much.
Some plot holes bugged me. For instance, how the lead always gets a gun that easily? (Many points like that were left unexplained), how one phone call can terminate all the crimes of one? And I didn't believe the chase of Mombassa. (Leonardo DiCaprio) didn't convince me very. Yes, he's a handsome star for a blockbuster, but not a great talent though.
The matter of salvation, out of importunate sin, can be considered a groundwork in almost all of (Christopher Nolan)'s movies yet. Continually his lead is running unsuccessfully from a crime he committed, to the salvation of confessing it at last. Notice well how his leads are chased by a sin, while they're chasing else, not too irrelevant, matters like the killer of his wife (Memento - 2000), the killer who witnessed the wrong kill (Insomnia - 2002), a reconciliation between a father and son or - in fact - between a husband and himself (Inception). (Inception)'s end is happy, since no matter the lead dreams or not (I'm with the second answer), he won his salvation by his confession about murdering his wife unintentionally. Clearly (Nolan) seems burdened by the Catholic sin and its pressing towards the conscience. The thing is he somehow remade the crisis of (Memento)'s lead in (Inception). So I was asking: "Where did I see all of that storyline before"?!
There is a point that drew my attention in terms of (Saito)'s character and his own agenda. Was he, so the movie, anti-monopolization? Or do his goals, right or wrong, not matter at all? If it's about doing the job, ethical or not, then it is interesting issue in a movie with the moral of "do the right thing".
I loved the boldness of the imagination, some lines like "The pain is in the mind" or "The ones who love each others share the same pains", and for sure the music score of (Hans Zimmer); it expressed the uniqueness of the movie's world, its inscrutability and danger cleverly, compensating big part of the movie's problems; which's a job filming in many countries, a la (James Bond)'s movies, didn't pull it off strongly! By the way, the movie's trailer has a music track named "Mind Heist", and it's mistakenly attributed to (Zimmer), while it's written by (Zack Hemsey). It's genius piece of music that caught the movie's spirit, and uttered it fascinatingly.
(Inception) is a different movie to entertain. 9 years is an enough time to write it. I bet that time was spend over the intro sequence along with the first half! Anyway, the movie managed to guarantee big budget, seducing A-list star, being full of action, thrill, and gunfights, bewitching you with engaging images and atmospheres, grossing millions all over the world, yet not achieving the same high success as a movie with a meaning. You may deem it sophisticated nonsense, a marvelous remake of (Memento), or just new sci-fi thriller; half exceptional, half weak!
When all the team survived at the end, I thought that was made for allowing part 2. If there will ever be one, I'll wait for it. Hope it'll be as dazzling as the first half, less blank than the second, more fresh than (Nolan)'s over pressing sins.