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Inception Movie Review: A Dreamlike Thriller

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, an extractor who steals ideas from people's minds. He is recruited to perform "inception", planting an idea in someone's mind. Cobb must successfully plant the idea to gain freedom. The film explores a device that allows people to share dreams, and features complex concepts of dreaming. It follows Cobb and his elite team as they embark on the impossible task of inception. Though complex, the gripping story and performances keep viewers engaged throughout the dream-like experience.

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Inception Movie Review: A Dreamlike Thriller

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, an extractor who steals ideas from people's minds. He is recruited to perform "inception", planting an idea in someone's mind. Cobb must successfully plant the idea to gain freedom. The film explores a device that allows people to share dreams, and features complex concepts of dreaming. It follows Cobb and his elite team as they embark on the impossible task of inception. Though complex, the gripping story and performances keep viewers engaged throughout the dream-like experience.

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Inception

The most common one-liner at the moment describing this movie is ‘The Matrix
meets 007’ but Inception is better than both. Gasps of indignation spring from the
fans of both these iconic ‘franchises’ I’m sure, but to follow the cornerstone of
Inceptions idea, the reality of truth cannot be ignored.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb (every character only has one name) an
Extractor, essentially a thief of ideas. In a botched job his target recruits him for
Inception, the opposite of extraction, Cobb must plant an idea within someone’s
mind. Recruiting his elite unit, Oceans Eleven Style, Cobb must succeed in
exchange for his freedom to go home.
The film has a device (both literal and metaphorical) that allows people to
fall asleep and share a common dream exploring a physical realm confined
within the mind of whoever’s dream it is. This film embodies every primary
school story that ends with “and then I woke up” but never resorts to such a cop
out and rises to the challenge of a gripping thriller made up of dreams.
The story and the concepts are both quite complex but the script is so
good you never get left behind if your paying attention. Rather than a Donnie
Darko mash-up its very structured even within such an unstable creation. It
might feel like Leonardo DiCaprio is playing every other character he has before
but that’s because he’s so good, with a very simple performance that emotionally
anchors the whole movie without you knowing.
The supporting cast are great to, up-and-coming Joseph Gordon-Levitt
owns, what is essentially, a large sidekick role. Michael Caine is Michael Caine
(what more do I have to say) and Tom Hardy, who you won’t remember from
anything but, will after seeing this. Ellen Page and Cillian Murphy round out a
great list but get outshone by their co-stars.
This kind of movie is the reason I go to the cinema. It’s an amazing
exploration into a new world of original ideas. Powerful performances with great
writing and some truly unbelievable slow-motion footage. The entire experience
is appropriately dream like, the line between the reality and the dream
increasingly blurred until with a deft lingering cut, a question, and then you wake
up.

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