A great movie.

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2010)

This movie was absolutely phenomenal. I thoroughly enjoyed it both times I saw it. The thing that I loved the most about it was the directing, and along with that, the camera angles and the shots that the makers of the movie were able to achieve. The visuals were stunning throughout. The writing was also fantastic. The script kept me guessing at every turn and I never knew what was going to happen next.
One thing that I did not like, however, was that some of the characters, specifically Ellen Paige's character, Ariadne, seemed to be simply stuck in the movie for no other reason than star power. This character may have done a couple of important things in this movie, however, it seems like the role that she played was not given the attention it deserved and, therefore, could just have easily not been included in the film.
Finally, I would like to compare Inception with another of Leonardo DiCaprio's brain pretzel- ing movies, Shutter Island. Both movies had me on the edge of my seat for the entire two hours and both had me asking to myself "Wait, what just happened?" at the end of their respective climactic and somewhat frustrating endings. However, i believe that Inception did a much better job of sucking me in from the very beginning and, based on the fact that I felt i needed to go see it again just to completely wrap my head around what was going on, I think it more successfully did what any movie is aiming to do, that is to entertain audiences and, of course, make money.