Movie Critique

Joshua Tinder
English
May 26, 2011
Movie Critique

The movie I am going to critique is Inception, it was directed and produced by Christopher Nolan. The top three actors in the film were Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page. This film came out in 2010 and i watched it at harkens theaters on opening night, which was July 16th. It was an original story written by Christopher Nolan and it was colorized.

In Inception we see a world where the technology exists to do what is called shared dreaming, through this technology you can enter someone's mind while they're asleep and potentially steal their ideas or secrets. Leonardo DiCaprio's character "Cobb" is a master of this technology and is a skilled "extractor". When he gets a job from "Saito" to implant an idea in the mind of his rival CEO's son he takes it in the hopes of being able to return home to the United States. Cobb is a fugitive because the US authorities think he killed his wife. Together with his partner Joseph Gordon-Levitt "Arthur" they set out to build a team worthy of committing inception (implanting an idea). their team is composed of, Cobb, Arthur, Ariadne (Ellen Page), Eames (Tom Hardy), Saito (Ken Watanabe), and Yusuf (Dileep Rao).

None of the events or characters in the movie were based off of real events, the story line was composed in fiction. The reason why Christopher Nolan did this was because these things couldn't happen and these people couldn't exist. Sci-Fi=Fiction=Couldn't exist in reality.

Inception Takes place mostly in the minds of its various characters but for the most part they are in Rural and corporate France. In the dreams they travel to California and other locations that were never explained. Everything was completely accurate in each location and corresponded with them as such.

I think Inception was a fantastic film for many reasons. First of all the storyline was very intriguing and very captivating, the characters were equally as fascinating were each explored to the perfect extent. The whole idea of the movie was very original and ground breaking, unfortunately in today's time in Hollywood originality is very difficult to come by. Nolan did a terrific job of guiding the audiences attention and did an even better job with the way he ended the film. Most of all this movie made perfect sense considering the complexity of the subject matter. The last thing i loved about Inception was the amazing soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer. All and all i would absolutely recommend this phenomenal movie to anyone who hasn't already seen it.