Inception
Inception
A burglar specializing in extracting company secrets via dream-sharing methods faces a reverse challenge: to implant an idea within a CEO's mind. However, his sorrowful history threatens to derail the endeavor and put his group at risk.
匚卂尺ㄥ reviewedMarch 7, 2025
This is a truly amazing film, a testimony to the wonders of CGI, in which cities rise and fall and cliff faces crash, in dreams within dreams within dreams, Here, dreams are the business of conman Leonardo DiCaprio, who uses them to plant ideas in the minds of opponents of his clientele, mega-rich, multinational corporations. It's a dangerous business, and wow, spectacular things happen in those dreams that could never happen in real life.The dreams need architects, and while the true architect, of course, is director Christopher Nolan, DiCaprio's architect and right-hand girl is Ellen Page, never better. Also giving sterling support are Joseph Gordon-Levitt as his right-hand man and Marion Cotillard as his dead wife, who has a nasty habit of turning up in the dreams and, believe me, she can be a bit of a nuisance.The film is a thriller. We become genuinely invested in these characters and care what happens to them, although the ending, in keeping with everything that has gone before, has a certain ambiguity. The whole is mind-blowing and, quite literally, out of this world. So, a film of enormous originality, worth every one of its five stars ten times over.