Endlessly Compelling...

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2010)

This movie is Christopher Nolan's own attempt at inception. And a successful one. He quite literally plants an Ingenious idea in your mind and it becomes something you keep thinking about long after the movie ends... This is not just a movie with stunning visualizations and top notch acting, but an incredibly original story. An astonishingly refreshing original story. I feared when I saw the list of films to be released this summer. Last Airbender (Ouch). Sorcerer's Apprentice (Yikes). Marmaduke (Someone save us). But this makes up for all of them. After seeing Batman Begins and the Dark Knight I started comparing Nolan to a modern day Spielberg (Before his movies began to resemble fecal matter). But I'm wrong. Not only does he direct these masterpieces but he writes most of them, something Spielberg rarely did. (Excluding the medal of Honor games, but it certainly wasn't original...) This story is from the mind of a genius and I look forward to seeing anything else Nolan brings to the Silver Screen. Sure Iron Man 2 and Predator were highly entertaining, Inception will truly leave you in deep thought, long after you leave the theater. I saw it opening day and I've thought about every detail... But I still haven't got it all figured out. It's a fun movie because so many parts are debatable. If you haven't, you must see it. It's all you'll be able to talk about. In every way Inception is endlessly compelling.