everything you'd wish for in a masterpiece!

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2010)

As a great movie it has got it all. A mission which looks almost impossible, a hero who's tormented with his guilt and regrets, A story which keeps the intrigue, Action which keeps adrenaline rushing, assembling a interesting supporting team,like in "oceans" which keeps the momentum going and a conclusion which leaves you with a smile and some un-answered questions.
Nolan sure has grown a lot in his ability to take such a complicated plot and present it so simply since Memento and The Prestige. It must have been an herculean task to draw a narrative of a complex plot into a multi-layer screenplay.
if someone asks to narrate the story of this movie there will not be much to say about that, for this movie is all about experiencing it first hand. It was only possible through intelligent choice of such stark different settings for different levels of dreams. A warehouse with raining outside then in a hotel with loss of gravity and finally into the mountains.
Intelligent projection such as "the fall of van from the bridge causing zero-gravity in the next level of dream in the hotel" and "using the principle of weightlessness of free fall of lift to create gravity like effect" were just awesome. at the same time it was inconsistent. why zero-gravity effect doesn't affect the next level of dreams.
though at some points it tries desperately to seem intelligent showing top spinning in the end. just like Scorsese did it in "shutter island".
the magnitude of production was just awesome. some scenes were just too great. when Ariadne starts playing with physical laws. when dream starts falling apart. and when van is racing and toppling and when it finally lands safe.
finally a spoilsport: Matrix still remains the best movie as far as intelligence is concerned.