Inception review

Inception, a cornucopia of visual and auditory delights and also complemented by a rich and melodic film score, which you'll hum for hours afterwards. A cast of believable, likeable and interesting characters interact together beautifully to create a truly awesome cinematic experience. In a nutshell, Inception tells the tale of one man's fight to be cleared of a crime he didn't commit and how he can influence a persons mind and ideas at the point of inception. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb a dream thief and a master of the art of extracting information from sleeping targets. This ability makes him very attractive to people in the world of corporate espionage and it is through this skill that he makes his living.

The part of his life he misses the most is with his children and he is promised his freedom and the opportunity to return to them if he can perform inception in the mind of an energy magnates formidable competition. This involves getting a team of experts together to perform the ultimate dream hiest.

Cobb is haunted however by his deceased wife, who he keeps alive with his talent. His wife puts the other members of the team in danger and they must constantly try to outwit her. I liked the idea of the body's defence mechanism which would be on the lookout for intruders and would exterminate them if they were detected. Each character possessed a totem which they'd use to evaluate their reality and Cobb's belonged to his deceased wife.So Cobb also has the dilemma of not only performing inception but also having to exorcise his own demons at the same time. The final dream within a dream is reminiscent of a James Bond movie, with an impenetrable fortress on a mountainside with scores of dream henchmen. It's a great film and you'll love it as long as you don't try to look too deeply for something that isn't there. It's not really complicated, but you will end up arguing with your loved ones and friends about the ending of the film. An absolute must watch, just make sure you see it in a cinema which does it true justice. So, was it a mind****? No, but it was a bloody good film

 
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