Cast Leonardo DiCaprio
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Marion Cotillard
Ellen Page
Cillian Murphy
Michael Caine
Ken Watanabe
Tom Hardy
Tom Berenger
Screenwriter
Christopher Nolan
Director
Christopher Nolan
Running Time
147m 57s
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Given the high reviews I was disappointed but it was good. The problem is it's more clever than entertaining. The visuals are great and a lot of time must have gone into them, my guess on the floating fight in the corridor is that they may have built the set in one of those planes which do the parabolic flights to simulate weightlessness given the effect and that it was a corridor. The lack of concrete detail of the characters I suppose is to give a possible layer of meaning that the whole thing is a dream which I'm having but there's such a thing as being too clever for your own good, it's too distancing and they sacrificed my caring more deeply for the characters for another level of complexity.
