Should You See It: Duh. But you knew that yourself, didn't you...

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2010)

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Chris Nolan's heist-action, psycho-thriller is a cinematically incredible experience. The labyrinth of a plot is surreal enough to be captivating and transportive, but also logical in its own twisting, perplexing way. The film dares you to use your brain, an anomaly in a sea of fluffy Hollywood clichés and half-baked extensions of blockbuster franchises. Nolan's story is original.
Mind-boggling as all the action and intelligence is, Inception still had to reach an emotional level where the audience cares for the characters while they are in peril. While I held my breath in some scenes, the anxiety was more about the mission and less about the individual players. It's hard to see where they could have been fleshed out further in such a tightly wound script, but the added knowledge would have led to an attachment to Cobb and his team that could have elevated the lasting power of the movie emotionally. The payoff could have been greater.
DiCaprio leads the cast with his controlled emotive power, which proves him time and time again to be the ultimate leading man with successes such as Shutter Island. Cobb's business partner is a part suavely played by the little known genius Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He gets the best visual scene of the movie-the zero gravity fight sequence. The "architect" is post-Juno Ellen Page handling herself well, and the nicest surprise has to be Eames, the "forger", played by Tom Hardy. Hardy, a relative unknown, is magnetic on screen.
Should You See It: Duh. But you knew that yourself, didn't you...