Another Nolan Mind Screw.

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2015)

Inception (2010): Dir: Christopher Nolan / Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Complicated yet imaginative film about the mind. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a thief who can invade dreams within a complicated process. He yearns to see his two children but police believe that he murdered his wife when in fact, she is forever part of the dream world they created. Ken Watanabe plays an industrialist whom promises full pardon to DiCaprio but he needs him not to enter a dream, but to plant an idea within the mind of the son of a rival. This will involve a team and a three dream process where reality is vivid. This film requires at least two viewings to fully comprehend its many turns. Art direction and shape shifting visuals are masterfully exquisite. Director Christopher Nolan dealt with similar themes in Memento, which is also complicated yet detailed storytelling. DiCaprio plays someone great at his profession but longs to correct or reinvent solutions. Ellen Page plays a bright student summoned to create mazes for the mind process as well as witness DiCaprio's guilt surface. Ken Watanabe offers the pardon as well as indulges in the process to fatal results. Marion Catillard plays DiCaprio's wife whom remains in a dream state yet sabotages his mission at hand. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is given quite the workout struggling to maintain those under the trance as well as ward off predators. Great concept regarding dreams and how they are processed without any recollection of the beginnings. The result is one of the best mind blowing original films of the year. Score: 9 / 10