Inception

Rating: 4 1/2 star

Synopsis: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception. (I wasn't able to think up a very good synopsis, so the credit for this goes to IMDB.com.)

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy



I'll start out by stating that I really liked this. I want to watch it again. Although I will say that there are a few times that there is bad language, which I was kinda disappointed about. That's the only reason why it's rated 4 1/2 star. Other than that it's great.

Some of the characters in the dream.

Leonardo DiCaprio played Cobb, the main character. Cobb was a complex character, to say the least. He has a mysterious history and is his own worst enemy.  He was a well thought up character. 

Cillian Murphy plays Robert Fischer and he's... not really a bad guy and not really a good guy. He's a a good guy in life and a bad guy in the dream. He's also the target of Inception.

The story was very mind bending and thought provoking. And it had cool cinematography. As seen in the picture below. It's a fight scene while floating around this hall - kind of like being in space, with no gravity.

I also liked this story because the characters had one chance to do Inception, knew how to do it, but didn't have super powers or anything. They were normal people who had been trained, but sometimes made mistakes even with that training. They were willing to go to the ultimate and fly by the seat of their pants if the plan went wrong. Whoever thought this story up was brilliant.

And to close this post out I'll give you two of my favorite quotes from the movie:

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Arthur is in a gunfight with a simple gun, while in a dream. Then Eames shows up, and this is what he says...


Eames: "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."

And then he pulls out a grenade launcher. Yep, dreams are pretty sweet. :)

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The second one is a very interesting observation.

Cobb: "Well dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on."

We had stopped the movie at this point and thought about it. And he was right - we never remember how we got there in the dream, we just hop in midstream. Kinda interesting, huh?