Inception

8 out of 10 stars

Cast:

                                             Cobb.................. Leonardo DiCaprio

                                             Eames.................. Tom Hardy

                                             Arthur.............. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

                                             Ariadne............... Ellen Page

                                             Saito.................. Ken Watanabe

                                             Fischer................ Cillian Murphy

                                             Mal..................... Marion Cotillard

*****WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS*****

Let me just start off by saying, I love Christopher Nolan. He is my hero and an absolute genius when it comes to directing movies. 

This is an example of that genius. 

I mean really, how can one person come up with such a complex idea of various levels of dreams? And the whole planting-an-idea-in-someone's-mind thing? Just amazing.

Anyway, I absolutely love the cast of this movie. I'm a big fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and I love Marion Cotillard. Plus, one of my all-time favorite actors ever had a total of about twelve seconds on-screen: Micheal Caine. Yes. The One and Only. 

And let me just take a minute to explain the Tom Hardy situation. You will hear about Tom Hardy a lot on this blog. Brace yourselves, you have been warned. He is, by far, probably my favorite young actor. I consider Inception to be his debut film into America. Yes, I am well aware that he was in the Resident Evil movies. But I feel like ever since Hardy worked with Christopher Nolan, people started to remember "the British one from Inception". 

I adored Eames's character. I thought he was definitely the comic relief in most situations. His constant bickering with Arthur was amusing and his "mustn't be afraid of the big guns, darling" line (scene from picture at top) never fails to make me laugh. I also thought he was really cool in the last level of dreams that they were all in. A.K.A. Hoth. The way he took out the entire security force was rather impressive if I do say so myself. 

Arthur, as much as Eames disliked him, was also one of my favorite characters. I always seem to like the right-hand-man kind of characters in movies and that was definitely Arthur's role. I like his cool, calm, and collected demeanor. Plus, his spiderman-no-gravity hotel fight scene was pretty dang cool. 

I didn't really like Ariadne, A.K.A. Arachnid (don't ask, I know she has absolutely no resemblance to a spider but that's just how I remembered her name the first time I heard it). This is probably because, as you will soon find out, that I really don't like when girls are one of the major characters in a movie. This usually only pertains to action and action-type movies. I have absolutely no idea why I feel this way but that's just how it is. Admittedly  compared to other major-female roles, she was rather good and I was able to tolerate her for the length of the movie.

I didn't completely love Cobb either. For some reason, I typically don't like the protagonist in movies. Especially when it's Leo DiCaprio. I have no idea why. It just seems like whenever its Leo DiCaprio, I just like the secondary characters better...

The only thing I have to say about Marion Cotillard: I am alarmed albeit impressed with her ability to play a character with extreme psychological issues. 

The suspense of the movie gets me every time. Especially when they're all in the van and it's falling off the bridge and they have to accomplish everything before the van hits the water so they can ride the "kick" back up. I've probably watched this movie at least 7 times. Every time I watch it, I always get nervous at that part. I always think they might not make it. I mean, you'd think for as many times as I've seen it, I would be used to it but no, I still get worked up. 

The one thing that I don't understand though is that once the van hits the water and they're all sitting on the bank of the river, how do they get from that dream level back to reality? I mean they got back to that level by riding all the "kicks", but what kick got them back to the plane? Because if they killed themselves, they'd just drop into Limbo, right? AND, they said the time period they'd be on that level was like a week. Hmm, food for thought. 

And finally, the spinning top at the end. Um, let me just say: It was going to fall over. It was wobbling. A TOP CANNOT WOBBLE THAT MUCH AND NOT FALL OVER. JUST LET HIM GET BACK TO HIS KIDS, OKAY? 

Overall, it was a great movie. However, as some people put it, "you have to think in order to watch it". If you enjoy movies that you can sit back and relax while watching, I would not recommend Inception. However, it is an amazing movie with an incredible concept. Another fabulous job by my idol.

Christopher, your genius is showing again...

Sources
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Cast-Imdb