Inception

Spoiler Alert!

Christopher Nolan shows why Dark Knight was not an isolated masterpiece.
Now that that is out of the way, as several people in the theatre said, the last time someone felt this way was when we all saw The Matrix. It was breathtaking cinema at its best.

Inception beats all comers from anywhere in the last few years. It is a super entertainer and a taut movie. Lee Smith, take a bow. For a 148 min to feel like this, the movie deserves big praise.

All actors essay likeable roles - Ken Watanabe as Saito, Marion Cotillard as Mal, Joseph Gordon Levitt as Arthur, Ellen Paige as Ariadne, Michael Caine as Leo's father in law and of course Leo. While there are shades of his nervy nature (think The Aviator, Blood Diamond, Shutter Island,...) he does sparkle under Nolan's direction. The delectable Marion lends the movie both and an angst-ridden air

The movie is surely a watermark in scripts.

Nolan who has also produced the movie with his wife will make hundreds of millions from this if not a billion!

And the background music by Hans Zimmer does not distract one bit while ensuring you watch most of the movie leaning forward in your seat to see what happens next.

Due to the nature of the movie, I shall not reveal much here. The movie tells the story of an extractor of people's memories who is engaged for a risky job. The underlying complexity to the job and associated events form the best part of two hours of the movie.

Must watch.