Inception

[lety]

Inception is so spectacularly entertaining you'll want to see it twice, and so mind-bendingly original you'll need to see it more than once to get all the intricacies of the story. Writer/director Christopher Nolan cements his place as one of our top living filmmakers with this trippy sci-fi action thriller/romance that more than lives up to its hype.

Inception is all about a new form of corporate espionage: the ability to steal ideas while the owner's dreaming. This is done by means of an 'extraction' team. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) heads up the most successful such team, with Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as the point man who helps set up the scheme. They'll be joined for their riskiest mission by Ariadne as the architect (Ellen Page) who creates the perfect dreamscape, and Eames (Tom Hardy) as a forger/master of disguise. Yusuf (Dileep Rao) is in charge of administering the drugs used to keep the team and its target in the dream state and who ultimately makes sure they all exit the dream safely.

When we first are introduced to Cobb, a conflicted man who cannot return to his family in the States for a reason that's left unexplained for much of the film, he's in the middle of trying to extract a secret from a powerful businessman named Saito (Ken Watanabe). The mission doesn't go as planned, but it does lead to a job offer Cobb can't refuse. In exchange for planting an idea in someone's head, Saito offers Cobb the opportunity to return to the US to be reunited with his family. That offer's impossible for Cobb to resist as he desperately misses his two small children, although planting an idea means the team will be entering uncharted territory.

[shoaybkhan]

I wish if Dicaprio won the Oscar for his performance in Inception.