It’s bloody 3 am in the morning and I’ll confess... I couldn’t wait till dawn to write on this movie!! This is whole-sale 5 star stuff. That’s right... the very stuff with which bench marks are made.
When I heard Nolan was not doing the next batman movie after The Dark Knight, I was a little disappointed... But then he s not some guy who just does things the usual way. So any movie with his name on it would do! I was waiting for this movie right from the time it was announced. I had to work a lot harder to beat my expectations down and I told myself ’Ok this is just another movie’ before I entered the show.
Inception succeeds as a movie and as an Idea that snatches you by the collar and drags you along - whether you like it or not! The Screenplay and direction stand out specifically since this is not like anything you have ever seen before! A wonderful trip through the mind of a genius!
The plot is a heavily complicated, immensely detailed, intensely layered and mind-blowing extravaganza! It would definitely require more than one viewing for a normal movie goer to even grasp what is going on. Yet the handling is so perfect and editing so damn good that you don’t even think over the happenings and just allow yourself to be captured in the swirl of it all!
The sub-sequences and parallel tracks which are supposed to be just supportive parts in the movie are shot with such class that other directors would just be satisfied to keep them as important or climactic scenes in their movies! Action scenes are done in a sort of ok-here-it-comes-yeah!-so-what? kind of way and yet stand out! Now THAT is something now isin’t it? Aren’t we supposed to be in a period where good action scenes alone make up good movies? :)
The film tells a web of accounts about a group of Brain-thieves who can steal anything in your brain from your sub-conscious memory. When they are asked to carry out something similar but so pretty much same, as the ’one last job’, the plot is set into motion. Though what you hear sounds totally unbeatable and cool, even the best of men know that they can be beaten... since they are the only ones aware of their weaknesses......
Leonardo Dicaprio is stunning in one of the best roles he has played since ’Blood Diamond’. Ken wantanabe, Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast blend into their roles fit into them like a glove. The crew has, in all absorbed the essence of the movie along with its ambitious heights and have supported in bringing out a movie that will be celebrated as a classic from our era. The length of the movie is hardly a matter since it just flies past you like seconds. Its still hard to believe it lasted 140 minutes! :) Finding out and specifying flaws from a movie like this would be a pure crime!! This is a double thumbs up!
The Climax packs an overall knockout punch that really leaves you in awe!! Yes.. that is when you snap out of your trance or rather ’wake up’ and tell yourself that all this was for real and you have indeed experienced a masterpiece in Motion picture history!