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Inception is as close to perfection as has ever been achieved in film. That's really all there is to say.

After seeing this, it's easy to make the case that Nolan is the best working filmmaker in the business. This guy is putting out excellent film after excellent film, and this, his first in years based on an original idea, might be his masterpiece thus far.

Indescribebly amazing. And I thought Memento was my favorite film.

A happy ending? Are you kidding?

This is definitely the first great movie of the summer. A jewel of exquisite beauty and genius amidst an ocean of suck. At least if the summer ends without any other good movies, we'll have this one to look back to...

I gotta' side with #2 up there... the audacity of this Nolan feller to be so damned brilliant every time out of the gate. This could be a game changer people. This is a SMART BIG MOVIE. Never thought I'd live to see the words SMART and BIG together when describing a Hollywood film but that's what we have on our hands. Nolan has not only one-upped himself, he's one-upped EVERYBODY. I was worried about surviving a midnight screening but this film is such a remarkable puzzle box that my brain was spinning on overdrive to keep at least one step ahead of it. Every now and then a film comes along that can restore your faith in the power of cinematic storytelling. This is one of those. My God, did I just speak in blurb? Enjoy!

I didn't watch one preview going into Inception and the experience took me back to seeing The Matrix for the first time. Don't miss it!

Disappointed. Very disappointed and I didn't want to be. Felt I had seen it all before and that kept pulling me out of the film - eXistenZ meets Only Forward. It did look lovely though and had some great acting.

One of the best sci-fi films I've ever seen. I'm definitely looking forward to owning this on Blu-Ray!

9/10 Watched the midnight screening, came out declaring it a top 3 favourite movie of mine, easily. Must. Watch. Again.

It's going to be very difficult to stay online and not get spoiled on this one. Although, even if I knew a plot point or two, that might actually help! http://www.dlmentertainment.com/?c=135&cn=Inception

I just came back from a screening a few hours ago. Have to say this is definitely one of the best movies ever made. The last few years have just been about adaptations etc. but it was so good to see a totally original made for film story that worked out so wonderfully well. I couldnt help but get the ost and ive been listening to it all day.

Talli, I agree with Tom Hardy being amazing, and I think I agree with pretty much everything else you said. That being said, I actually figured those things were done on purpose. If you are one of the ones that thought the top would fall at the end, then I understand your concerns, but if not.... well, that's how I took it. Maybe I was on crack, I dunno....

@24 and 25 I'm not 100% sure till I see it again but I think it WAS done on purpose. What if the reason for the jumping around which I thought was a little annoying at first, is actually because they were dreaming from the beginning and you never remember how you got from one place to the next. Just A theory though... I have a reason for this theory but I have to watch it again and pay attention to one scene in particular to make sure.

When the end of a movie causes people to clap because of the brilliance..I think that speaks for itself.

The last movie I gave a standind ovation to was ironically made by Chris. I believe i will be clapping agian.

p.s. not gunna lie, there is nothing more retarded than clapping at the end of the movie

Yes there is, how about at the start of a movie?

Hold on guys… Ive put a lot of thought into this and the whole end dream thing with wantanabe doesnt make sense unless they were all in an original dream from the beginning… What if they never left wantanbe's dream from the very beginning of the movie. Wantanabe's character was the subject for inception! it was all to get Wantanabe to make that call at the end. it was one huge dream so leo could go home. They made him believe he was an innocent bystander the whole time which he said multiple times. but he was actually the subject the whole time!

incredible concept i think but it did see through to the full potential (i could feel it being good on paper but on screen it was just missing true greatness) i still think someone else should have had the lead roll in this. leo is the man but he has no sense of love to me. point and case revolutionary road. if youre cast for that role its very hard in my opinion to do this roll. that was major emotional currency loss this movie did not have enough special effects or the feeling of special effects if you ask me. it needed to be explored more. and a small side note: i felt a lot of scenes were shot for 3D and that left the 2D shots kind of amatuerish. like the exploding streets shot last but not least the top is still spinning

ABOUT THE TOP: Nolan wants you to make the ending yourself. What is reality? Cobb just made his in the end. He got to see some erm... faces and the guilt was lifted. Even if that isn't real... he made it real. Movie was epic. Movies need to make me think like this more often.

THIS MOVIE WAS FUCKING CRAZY MAN!! THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR HANDS DOWN!

Watched it twice in a span of 8 hours. Loved the whole experience. Loved the thinking it got me into. Will be watching it again soon. Time for a kick...

it kind of had a phantasm feel to it in the way that it had a bleak and scary atmosphere.

This film will restore the publics faith in "Hollywood Blockbusters" It certainly has for me. Take notes Michael Bay, this is what a "big" film is supposed to do.

This will deffinetly win awards for cinematography, sound, score end editing. As for story, there was a little too much exposition in the dialogue for my tastes and im not fan of the ending at all. It made the whole movie pointless. Lazy writing.

I loved it...The scenes with JGL in the hotel were epic.

To anyone who thinks the ending sucked, I disagree. I think it might just be the best ending ever, in-fact this movie might just be the my favourite movie of all time(so far). Every part of it was so good; acting, story, cinematography, visuals, editing... etc. I'll be going to see it again and again.

I agree with #27 that it was done on purpose, but not necessarily because it was a dream. I think it was done to make the truth less certain for the viewer. I think the decision about whether it was reality or a dream is supposed to be left to the audience. There certainly seemed to be enough clues left to argue either side, and I think that was the point. I definitely need to watch this again, though, because there is just too much in this movie to get everything from one screening.

i have yet to see this awzome film

Inception will be refereed to as one of the greats, from here on out.

Was anyone suprised by how similar this was to Shutter Island? In terms of Leo being haunted by his dead wife in dream sequences, and the stuff with his kids. (I know it plays out totally differently, but it struck me as unexpectedly similar). The similarities of course end there, and man, was than an outstanding film. I need to see it again to really get my head around it though.

Inception was directed well, shot by a very talented cinematographer, and cast by someone who knew how to appeal to many different demographics. No one can deny the visual spectacles and achievements that Christopher Nolan has succeeded at creating in this film. However, my qualms lie in the expectations and lack of depth and involvement that I felt with the film. Once anyone introduces the notion of shaping dreams, as the character of ellen page did at the beginning, one cannot just leave the audience hanging, as Nolan did. There was no twisting, manipulating, or reimagining of any dreamscape once it had been introduced, except for the initial sequences. You cannot introduce an idea and then only use it once or twice later simply to say that you did. Also, the depth of each dreamscape was very thin, limited to one area, a fact that all of us know to not be true. Any one dream can take you across the world, and regularly doesn't make sense (I have flown in dreams). I feel, in the end, that Nolan constricted himself in the depth that he could go in the film.

This film will no doubt be debated for many years to come. As for me, I think it was a Monumental achievement in Film making. Chris Nolan proves once again that he has an incredible mind and incredible directing abilities. Say what you want, but this Film was PHENOMENAL in so many ways it's hard for me to critique it. I will no doubt have to see it many more time to get the full scope and depth of it. Hands down one of the best films ever made! Lets not forget Hans Zimmer and his phenomenal Score that made the film even more intense than just the visual images alone could do. Being a current film student, this movie both tremendously inspires and crushes me at the same time. I wonder if I will ever be able to make such a statement on the silver screen. The one thing for sure, is that Nolan seems to have limitless imagination and credibility. In conclusion I just want to say thanks to the entire cast and crew of this film. With all the crap that we are subjected to every year at the Cinema, Inception was like a GIANT breath of fresh air, and I want more!

Truth be told, I did not love this film. I enjoyed it a lot, especially because its a grand horrah for originality. Certainly a strong contender for a Best Picture nomination, which actually deserves it, unlike another mainstream success (cough* cough* Avatar)

@66 i guess for you, your desensitized of an enjoying those types of movies but understand what your saying and if you know more movies with the same concept comment back, im interested. seeing the trailers didn't really impress me with bending cities and shit that had hidden explosives in it. i was also hoping that the dreams were going to be as accurate as paprika and the cell were trying be but when i saw the movie today i was a little disappointed but it did not change what i thought of the movie(8.7) . the way he structured the rules of entering someones dreams was well thought out and interested me to learn more about the concept. the plot of the movie isn't really anything new(take away the dream part), the actors didn't do anything amazing but their performance was still spot on, the dream worlds and cg didn't excite me but it had a good reason for being so simple. it felt fresh and something i wanted to see more of until i get bored of it like #66 haha but it was like seeing a good time travel movie, ideas that can be explored and have great adventures and stories. sometimes it wont even be a high budget film but seeing that idea in a movie again is just nice to see and experience. i was not disappointed.

just rent the matrix instead.

i agree with #70

In my opinion, best film of the year thus far. Second most anticipated (right beside Tron, RIGHT beside).

It was such a good film that I'm planning on watching it again in theaters, something I've only done once in my life (I just never do it on my own accord). It was one of the best endings I have seen in a while, so much so that the audience applauded. I wish there was an extra scene after the credits, but it was worth it.

Wow I hate to just repeat everything. But I have to. Even after waiting what seems like years to see this with a good amount of hype going into it. I Absolutely LOVED! This Movie!!! I can't wait to see it again. I'm just wondering, if all of our theories about it are even our own, or if we have just been Incepted by Nolan himself!(mindfuck!!) I totally agree with #37 that's exactly what I was thinking after it ended. I also think this movie will probably cause me to have even more fucked up dreams. only time will tell.

THIS MOVIE COMPLETELY BLEW ME AWAY!!! WHAT MAKES IT EVEN BETTER IS THAT IT WAS MY FIRST IMAX MOVIE AD I WILL NEVER FORGET IT!!!!!! IF THIS GUY KEEPS YOPPING HIMSELF I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE WHAT HE DOES WITH BATMAN 3!!!!!!

Early numbers suggest a sizeable opening weekend of $55 - $60 million. No, this movie is way too complex for mass audience to make more than $300 million. This is a very gripping, engrossing thriller, and the best time I had in movies so far this year. Still, Nolan is not a master magician everyone makes him out to be, but he is a very sly cinematic conman: the film is full of misdirection & showmanship. Watch his best film PRESTIGE: magic, misdirection, obsession, dead girlfriend, voice of wisdom personified by Michael Caine. And if you see Michael Caine's first appearance in INCEPTION and listen to one particular plead he makes to Leo, you kinda know where the movie is going. That line is key. Next he introduces Leo to Ellen Page character, Ariadne who helps to build maze for the dreamworld. If you read a little Greek mythology, Ariadne is a character who help a greek hero navigates out of a maze. Nolan chooses those Latin or Greek names for a reason: Eames - Anglo-Saxon origin, means "uncle" (Tom Hardy poses as " the good uncle" in the film), also means "prosperous protector" (to Leo's character?) Mal - Latin root for evil, wretched as in "malicious", "malignant", like the way Leo describes idea as being a parasite. The character seems to be unambiguously evil Miles - Latin for soldier, Leo's father figure in the movie Dom - now this sounds like dom which is Latin root for "house", but there is also another word dorm which is Latin for, yes, "to sleep" as in DORMitory or DORMant. The character's last name Cobb sounds close to Latin cub which means "to lie in" as in inCUBate. All these put the main character in a very interesting perspective.

this movie was epic and beautifuly madei loved it, the ending was decent tho

Loved this movie. no doubt. Great plot and complexity and all. But i just thought that the script was so...unfinished. So much unnecessarily basic banter. For a movie so complex...it's really outdone itself on the simplicity of the script...oh yeah and the parts they throw in where someone 'explains' something with like 3 words and really....just causes the 'layman' to ask more questions unrelated to the plot...i dunno. my 2-soon-to-be-out-of-circulation-canadian pennies.

I dunno what more to add than what's been said, but the movie was pretty brilliant and entertaining. The plot was predictable, and there were moments I was disappointed there wasn't a twist to, but it didn't detract from the movie, it was well-executed, and I fully intend to add it to my Bluray collection!

#90 I agree Good movie, but not the best I would even go as far to say that it didn't live up to the hype. It seems that people may just be saying it is the greatest movie ever just to be saying it. Dark Knight was a much better film and surpassed the hype, but this is definitely the best film of the year I will be watching it again. Best Nolan movie though? Not a chance.... Seems people are afraid to say they didn't like it, it's okay if Nolan doesn't top himself every time, people seem to be making him out to be a messiah.

It was a brilliantly scripted, shot, and acted film. It was also horridly edited in the opening hour, exposition heavy, and hallow. In addition very much lacking in emotional investment until the end, the scene of Mal's death should have been shown far earlier in the film, and the audience would have reason to be involved earlier on. All the secondary characters didn't have any stake in the story besides their own survival, which made us care far far less. 7/10

Nolan is one of the best creative directors out there...Awesome movie.

Just saw it for the second time. Maybe it's because I was a little tired the first time, but it was even better the second go round. This film is a MASTERPIECE on every level. SIMPLY STUNNING! I have never been physically shaking at the end of a film but this one did it to me! Thank you to Chris Nolan and everyone involved with the making of this film, truly AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People have been confused about the ending. SPOILER: It cuts away just before the top falls over, making you wonder if he's awake or still dreaming. I read on a different forum the answer, and I have no doubt it's right. He's awake he's definately awake. There's proof throughout the whole movie that he's awake. For instance in the real world, it doesn't always follow him. Hell there's a scene of Joseph Gordon Levitt training Ellen Page while he is on the other side of the world, and he has nothign to do with it. That wouldn't happen if they were all a projection in his dream. Theres others, scenes where you clearly see that the top falls over. So why cut it where he did? Because of inception. He did exactly what Leo did to his wife. Nolan Incepted into our heads the idea that maybe it isn't reality, with something as simple as a spinning top. It was fairly easy to tell that the top was about to fall over, in fact I'd say the put the cut just a split second before it did. But that was enough to put that bit of doubt in our minds. It's not about real or not real. It's about inception.

A Perfect Film.

lol some of the music reminded me of mass effect. haha but it was a perfect film. loved it.

i loved how at the end of the movie, EVERYBODY went "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" when it didn't show if the top fell or not and then we all just started clapping. this si not a movie, it's an experience. so go and experience it NOW! p.s. i hope all you people that didn't understand it know that i'm a 13 year old who completely understood it, you just need to pay close attention

I just watched a trailer/piece on "characters" in Inception, and in this trailer, Nolan calls Mal "The Shade." (I don't remember that from film, but when I looked it up, it seemed to make a lot of sense - and support the theory that Mal is not dead at all but definitely living and controlling at least something in the world(s) we saw in the movie.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_%28comics%29

inception was like getting mind-raped by christopher nolan. haha.. awesome awesome movie. best of the year so far. visually stunning. great characters. the introduction of something new and exciting. this movie had it all. overall 10 out of 10.

wow... almost 111 positive comments so far... impressive...

The film was an excellent high concept film, with some beautifully shot action sequences. Though I personally found a few difficulties with some of the pacing, it was generally of an extremely high standard. I thought that for a film as long as it is, there should have been more room for actual character background and developement which it seemed to slightly be lacking. And though I thought all the performances were excellent (especially Tom Hardy and the ever cool Joseph Gorden Levitt), sadly Ellen Page's character felt somewhat forced and not hugely necessary. That's meant as a slight against her performance which was otherwise strong. An interesting, thought provoking film. Chris Nolan maintains this standard, the future of hollywood isnt as grim as it would seem. Take note hollywood 8.5/10

Also, hairball, if they were in a dream since the helicopter scene with Saito, when they carried off Lukas Haas, then how do you explain Dom using his totem successfully after that exercise with Ariadne in which she shifted up too much shit and the projections turned on her? Hmmmm?

The film would be better off without the horrible action sequences on the snow setting.It seemed draggy. Couldn't they just infiltrate it instead. @101 ANDREW GECSY, ur a fucking genius man, come to think of it, Nolan really did Incept the idea of Inception into our heads.

what a great film. One of the my favorites was the hallway fight. At the end of that sequence the sold out theater let out one loud sigh of relief. I don't think anyone breathed for those 3 minutes.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was exciting, it was complex (but not impossible to follow), the special effects were stellar (though not overdone or excessive for this type of psychological thriller) and the cast was a who's who of Nolan films (ie Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Raz Algul etc). It was a spectacular thrill ride, wonderfully written multi-layerd story on multiple timelines. I don't know how Nolan does it. I don't know how his mind is capable of such complex thinking and storytelling.

Also, the top topples over earlier in the film so if he was in limbo at the end it would be from Fischer's inception job.

what are your thoughts about the ending?????????

well, what can be said that hasn't already been said? I loved it plain and simple. I was immersed in the entire story, Inception kept a steady hand on my shoulder and I never once looked away. I loved the banter between Gordon-Levitt and Hardy. Murphy was a delight as always. Watanabe was great in his role. Page was brilliant. And DiCaprio was amaizing as always. It earned a place in my top films category, and implanted itself in my mind forever. Enough of my gushing! @Pulp fiction212, I can say I was really nervous during the ending...the totem kept spinning, then wobbled...seconds later cut to black, ambigious all the way. That's how you end a movie! Brilliant film, brilliant cast, brilliant story.

inception is the second coming of christ....inception was directed by god actually. please bow down to this movie for the rest of your life.

My own personal rating of this most awesome of films is a 10. For those of you rating it 9/10, what did it lack?

I am not one of those people who wants to pick apart a film looking for flaws. I, as I think most everyone that saw the film with me, left the theater with the same sense of being part of something exceptional, as I did. The ending was indeed "perfect" because like the movie subjects, we all were given the opportunity to participate, like on a collective trip, but with our own sense of purpose . We all dream. We all ask ourselves what do they mean. We may have, at some time in our lives, taken "drugs" to escape from a reality that we didn't like, only to wake-up to that reality. So we all have a meaningful perspective to allow ourselves to be a part of this movie. This movie was only Sci-Fi in current reality. In this movie all of us are allowed to suspend that and become part of it' more so than any movie I can think of. Each of us may have favorite movies that we love because we personaly identified with the subject matter, or a character, but I would bet that even in those movies we can not suspend the reality that they were only characters that we were watching once the movie was done. I know, I love movies because I want there to be people who are like the characters, in real life. Here we can fall in love with the movie itself, along with and/or despite the characters.

a list of my qualms: 1. Everything felt...curt. - granted this may be the effect Nolan was looking to achieve as you jump between dreams before getting kicked back. However, I felt the thing that most suffered from this curtness was the character development specifically. The characters are seemingly thrown in accompanied by a brief job description but then nothing else happens - there's no further development of individual characters other than Dom. Subsequently however, at first I did find Ellen Page's character as kind of useless. She's dragged in, plays with some dreams, and then creates a maze that we never see or hear of again. Nevertheless, she does stand as an interesting foil within the film and seems to require repeat viewings to further investigate her role in the film and how she interacts/mirrors the audience. 2. The whole adventure felt rather trivial. Sure, there were a few tense moments, but once you realize that dying only results in waking up from the dream world & that Dom is basically Jesus and able to bring back people from Limbo...theres no real weight behind all the "danger" and gun battles. Furthermore, the whole plot demanding that Dom & Co. pull off this Inception is left (more or less) unexplained. He works for a faceless company, fails said faceless company's mission, is hired by another faceless company to screw over another faceless company for no other than reason than for Dom to do it for his kids & because mind-theft is completely bad ass. Really? Why the hell should I care about aforementioned companies? Oh...and the whole ethics issue...with you know...implanting an idea and changing an innocent persons whole outlook on life, depriving them of free will all for the sake of capitalistic gains...ya...what the hell is up with that? Are all of Team Dom completely callous and devoid of any morals? Ya? Sweet. I think Nolan missed out on a big opportunity there to dive in and explore those philosophical & moral dilemmas - it could have added a much needed dynamic to Tom Hardy's & Joeseph-Gordon Levitt's characters. 3. The Dream world. Ok, ok, granted - Nolan did pull off some spiffy Escher-esque effects and got to play around with some physics. (Buildings rolling in on each other? Hell ya!) But I really felt he could've made the dream world stand out more stylistically. Now I am not saying he needed it to be some bad acid trip landscape with a shit load of colors and Gaudi buildings. I just wish he explored more of the dynamic dimensions that are innately embedded within the concept of a dreamscape. The whole idea of time and rate of time was well played - so too was the dynamic shifting gravity that was influenced by the state of the Dreamer's body and environment. Well done there. I just think with the limitless capacity presented by our minds - Nolan could have dived further into inter-dimensional & spatial relationships within the manufactured dreamscapes. BOTTOMLINE I still appluad the Nolan for delivering a fantastic movie. Despite its shortcomings and missed opportunities I firmly believe that repeat viewings will only further unveil hidden nuances embedded within the film, opening up a big can of analytical rants and discussions for a long time to come. I know I am sure as hell ready to sit down and watch it again. It is a deeply intriguing film and definitely thought provoking - which I am always a fan of. In the end, Nolan's dreamscape layer cake is definitely entertaining - and by that fact alone - it stands as a successful film in my books.

This movie is the poster child for mind-fucks, but I absolutely LOVED every single minute of it! Granted, I got a massive headache from watching it so late at night.... but WOW, I can't wait to go see it again!

@137: I agree that Nolan seems to miss out on the fun way he can bend reality after he has shown how Ellen Page character, Ariadne, is capable of literally folding cities & building bridges. What Nolan does here is little different from MATRIX where there are 2 distinct realities which are separate. The various levels of dreams here are influencing one another. Also, there is that question of amorality which #137 points out. All this complex plan to rob a human being of his free will to break up a company so that Leo can see his kid's faces? In the end, the audience goes "aaww" look at those cute kids and redeemed Leo as a loving daddy while another family legacy is destroyed. Has the audience been "INCEPTED?"

Inception truly is The Mona Lisa of film

The top has to stay up. From the time he left his kids and then finally came back at the end of the movie the kids did not age at all. It had to have been a dream.

Everyone go and read Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith, watch eXistenZ, The Matrix, Solaris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Naked Lunch, Jacobs Ladder, Vanilla Sky, Ocean's 11 and a few others play Modern Warfare and there you have Inception. Inception is Nolan's ability to make us feel this is a unique concept and story. Acting was spot on though.

Hands off best film i've ever seen. he should get multiple oscars for this. and tackling the concept of dreams is so hard to do. its like he blew the matrix out of the water. my questions is SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Is it real? did the spinning top fall? kids were wearing the same clothes as before, does that mean they're just memories and its all fake?. or that they have few clothes to wear? lol how much time passed in the real world after dicaprio was left behind in the lowest level looking for saito? does it matter that each deeper level of the dream is longer than the last and did he have enough time to search for him (saito) in that time? ie 10 seconds real life = 10 minutes dream one = 3 hours dream two= 10 years dream three (deepest level) if the last bit was all in his head how did he construct the people to help him in the dream? or was the entire movie in his head? i am so confused, anyone wanna have a shot at clarifying for me? cheers

Awsome....little long with the wife story line but I understood that it was necessary. That you sir for the mind f*ck served with many layers.

The film moves like a piece of music. It just keeps building. The entire second half is a one long climax. If it were sex, it would be foreplay then long ass orgasm. I don't think anyone can take their eyes away from the entire second half of this movie. It just doesn't fucking stop. The only thing that took me out of it was how fucking incredible the soundtrack was. I can't stop talking about this movie. The only thing I didn't like was the dialogue. It bothered me how often people said the word "dream," but because everything else was so good I have to wonder if that was on purpose.

@ #154 they established fairly early on in the heist that if they die the MIGHT essentially go into a fucking coma - and apparently - Dom is a dreamscape Jesus and has no qualms with diving into Limbo and pulling people out - apparently its no biggie. Hence - no suspense (or very little as it were). Furthermore - to add the lack of suspense - it was hard to care about any of the characters except Dom. Ok sure, some random Asian CEO gets shot - why the fuck do I care if the guy dies or not? Oh - I remember - if the Asian dude dies...Dom doesnt get to see his kids - how sad. As for the rest of the team, all I know is that one guy is British and mimics people. Another guy is Middle Eastern and is just there to make a new sedative. Yup. I'm definitely feeling a strong connection with those two. Bottomline - I felt that there was no weight or substance behind 1) the threat of Limbo or 2) Dom's teammates. Although I still say Inception was a good film - it is flawed. It isnt some big mind-fuck philosophical film all it is a GOOD ACTION FILM. Unfortunately, when held in comparison to other big budget summer action films, Inception magically (and mistakenly) gains an infallible god-like status.

Loved it ... "life is but a dream"

I haven't been this excited after watching a film since, well, The Dark Knight. Flawless film. It took me a good ten minutes after the film ended before I could even speak.

this makes me uber excited about the next superman movie..........Nolan is gold.

Umm, if I'm honest I was a little bemused by the film. I got it but I didn’t feel a great connection to it. When walking out with my friends we were agreeing that we thought we enjoyed it but we weren’t sure. I think for me because of it mainly existing in dream worlds, it's hard to feel any real world threat or danger in the action scenes. They are well filmed but you don't, well I didn't, feel any connection or a feeling of peril for the team. When you've people emptying handguns and machine guns into cars and only one person gets hit (and you feel that was added purely to add pace) it just feels a little hollow. When the film starts in a dream, then you think you are in reality but discover it's still a dream and then think you are in reality but it's a further dream it blurs the line so much between what is real and dream that you lose a sense of grounding. There's no real detail into Leo's life or the company orchestrating the dream walking and hence although what happening on the screen is pretty on the eye, it's not really resonating. An example (and this is in the trailer so not hugely spoilerish) is when a character is trying to take out a bad guy with a small assault rifle and then a crew member comes along and tells him he needs to think bigger and takes him out with this massive gun. Now one assumes that he just had to think of a bigger gun and it appeared as he didn't physically take it with him. Hence if you are conscious whilst in a dream, surely you could do anything. So instead of getting a bigger gun, you could drop a nuke on him or possess superhuman powers. The point I'm making is that when you say there is no rule book, it's hard to maintain tension by showing scenes played within the semi physical rule book that we know of but the director has said doesn’t exist. I don't know if that's clear. For instance The Dark Knight was a far better film for me because they placed it in the context of a real world city and location. The scenes, the setting, the characters had more impact because you could 'latch on' or 'identify' with the real world that you knew. In Batman Begins it made nods to this but then the whole Gotham City with it's overblown buildings, slums and intrusive monorail jarred against this and un-anchored it from the setting that you would normally place it in. I remember reading that Nolan had always wanted to do a Bond film and the snow sequences certainly looked like that but that was the thing. They looked like them but they felt empty and going through the motions because there wasn’t a real feeling of peril. You were constantly reminded that it was a dream, it was fantasy and as such ‘bad guys’ were despatched with the resonance of a computer game. I just feel that the film got a little carried away with it's belief in it's own cleverness. There is also a niggling thought that by saying you don't like it or 'feel' it, you will be accused of being someone who only likes the low brow, point A to point B, Michael Bay esque films. Hence I think there is a good chance of many people saying they like it for fear for not being considered a dullard. So although from a technical POV it was very good, acting was top notch, film score enjoyable I just felt it lacked something.

This movie made The Matrix look like an episode Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

Inception was a great movie, almost everything was perfectly done. The visuals and the story worked really well together and the actors delivered an amazing job, I loved it. I wrote a review on Inception, if you want to read it you can read it on my blog: http://www.munkicloud.net/reviews/inception-review

The movie is out in the theater near me, i'll check if i can see it ASAP.

Loved it.

titanic had belevable romantic lead with leo and kate hudson niether shutter island nor inception had this and i think fanboys in all the fanfair miss that point. I really hope leo doesnt do another imaginary dead wife movie in his lifetime, im going to have to skip the next one. two are enough in one year lol.

#172 johnny, This movie was nothing like Shutter Island except for the fact that the main character has issues of guilt about his dead wife. That is the ONLY similarity. Shutter Island wasn't based on dreams. Bad memories, maybe, but the whole point of that movie was that he had gone insane and didn't know it. He never even quesioned his sanity until near the end, and his resolve got weaker as the film progressed. In Inception, his resolve got stronger and he was getting more and more of a grasp on reality and realized he had to put away his guilt. Perhaps if somone other than diCaprio had starred in it you wouldn't have even noticed. In my opinion, Shutter Island was okay and did a pretty good job of developing atmosphere and making you ponder whether Teddy was really on top of things, but it didn't pique my interest nearly as much as Inception did. I really like most of Scorsese's work, but Shutter Island was sort of disappointing. Inception, on the other hand, held my interest from start to finish. It exceeded my expectations. Even the dialog, which is usually cliched, boring, and stupid filler in summer action flicks, was actually interesting. I also can't imagine how you came to the conclusion that there was more chemistry between Leo and his female counterpart in Shutter Island than there was in Inception. At the moment I can't say I feel one way or the other, since both relationships were handled pretty well by diCaprio and these two actresses. Marion Cotillard is probably a better actress, and if you haven't seen La Vie en Rose, you should check it out. It might change your mind about who's better. Also, your comparison of fans of this film to cokeheads and hormone driven teenage girls who swoon over Robert Pattinson (talentless) and Taylor Laughtner (also talentless), and that weirdo hack Lady Gaga, and a wannabe poeser like Justin Beiber is way off the mark. Those people will never be in the same league as Leonardo diCaprio and Christopher Nolan. And here's a little newsflash about your hero Spielberg; he's lost his touch. Big time. Indy 4, for example, was a total suckfest that I wouldn't use to wipe my ass. Spielberg's too full of himself. He hasn't made a good movie for twelve years. Everything since Saving Private Ryan has been mediocre. Nolan may not be as prolific or as lauded, but he hasn't made a stinker yet. And probably never will. Lastly, even though this movie ran over two hours, it went by like one and a half. Too long? You're full of shit. Citizen Kane was too long when it passed the half hour mark. I didn't even finish watching it. It was the most miserably boring piece of overrated garbage I've ever seen. And that after trying to keep an open mind. It baffles me how it's been referred to as the greatest film in history. I thought the point of a film was for it to be stimulating, not dull, boring, and ass numbing. I've never squirmed so hard in my seat trying to watch a movie. I went a half hour past the point where I started to get bored trying to give the damn thing the benefit of the doubt. And yeah, maybe Inception borrowed some ideas from a few prior ventures into the depths of the mind, but let's make one thing clear, okay? There hasn't been a wholly original idea in art, literature, or film for a long time. It's all been done... and done... and done... and done... The Matrix is one of my favorite all time films, but it mimics a novel from the 80s called Neomancer. Hell, the main character's name is NEO, for crying out loud. And you know what else? It's not some fantasy story from someone's imagination. It's just hyperbole drawing parallels to shit that's really going on. No, we're not all plugged into computers, but this world sort of is a 'matrix' isn't it? Practice for what's ahead. And isnt't it true that people are being replaced by machines in the work place? So those ideas that are shared between Inception and whatever else you can think of don't really belong to the people who made those movies, do they? They are parts of our history that are reused over and over again. So get down off your high-fucking-horse and stop nitpicking like some fussy little bitch. Inception is a great movie and bound to be remembered as such even after the intial histeria wears off.

#175 My god, are you trying to shove your opinion down everyones throat as a 'fact'? With comments like "He hasn't made a good movie for twelve year" its obviously that you are clueless. Catch me if you can? Minority Report? Munich? Ring a bell? Yeah all these movies are great movies in fact, the last Indy Jones is the only crap fest Spielberg was ever involved in.

Absolutely brilliant.........I just wish it wasnt over, I havent been sucked into a movie like that in years.

I finally got to see this movie today. Visually spectacular, and quite simply, one of the best movies I have ever, EVER seen. I thought it was as close to a perfect movie as you can get. The only negative I had is that I found Ken Watanabe difficult to understand at times. Regardless of that, I couldn't have loved this movie any more. 5 out of 5 stars for me. Absolutely spectacular.

It was a decent movie, but I feel that previews and movie-goers are making it seem much more complex and complicated than it actually is. I didn't leave the theater feeling confused and had no desire to talk about the movie at all. I might give it a second watch when it comes out on DVD.

it was boring and i wish i would of seen toy story 3 instead, to much talk and a plot which was just rubbish, trying to be like the matrix failed.

FIRST OFF EXCELLENT FILM... I went in without seeing any previews at all! I've NEVER done that before... needless to say THIS movie is a total MIND- FCK loved every second of it... you guys i've seen the film 3 times... HE was not it a dream the whole film... IN ALL of the dreams throughout the movie if you pay close attention he is WEARING his wedding ring *hence the fact that this is when his dead wife MAl appears* he still is married to her in the dreams because that's all he dreams about and she comes in other dreams even if he's not in his *own* dreams ...but when he is awake *When he first me ariandne , or in the hotel when he firsts speaks to his children on the phone, or the plane ride at the end, * ... NO WEDDING RING because HE WAS ACTUALLY AWAKE hello!!! =) Who all thinks the top stopped at the end??? *Raises hand* if you would have waited long enough at the end of the film...when the casts starts rolling they have two sets of characters playing the kids role(s) with two different ages listed... =) the younger ones of course when he left for 2 1/2 years earlier... then the next set of children *the older ones* when he returned... AWESOME Fkn details!!!!

It's a film that makes stupid people think they are clever. No wonder it's so popular. Nolan makes simple film-making and logical mistakes, and people are so unwilling to see those mistakes that they invent wild "it's all a dream" theories to explain them. So are all movies (including "Avatar"), and if you say that all bets are off. You can justify any idiocy. Here are just two logical weaknesses. (1) Why doesn't grandad just fly the kids to Paris? (2) Why on Earth would you need the sedation equipment in a dream within a dream within a dream? Nolan has ripped off Tarkovsky's "Solaris" and "Stalker" (for the end), pinched more from "Citizen Kane", at least nodded to "Existenz", and after initially-promising dream landscapes given us dreams out of Michael Bay movies. The simplest reading about what is reality and what is dream is the one he initially wanted us to believe. The problem is that his film-making language and logical missteps have then to be explained away, so all these theories have to be invented because fan boys don't want to acknowledge the possibility of mistakes. Incidentally, the old kids were ONLY used in the telephone sequence, so don't take cast lists as evidence to support crackpot theories. And for a dream predicated on emotion, it was all too emotionless. Nolan has admitted he couldn't come up with an emotional hook for a long time, and when he finally did, it's just there as a plot device.

After watching the film I felt tht I shud also once experience lucid dreaming. The film was food for brain. Thrilling ,exicting, emotional and a perfect casting. Have never watched a film like this. Good work. Congratulations 4 the sucess. Inception cast and crew deserve it.

why does the top fall over at the beginning? i thought they were supposed to be in limbo??

One of the best movies I have ever seen Leonardo De Caprio's did some great acting, and I would like to see him in another movie but, I am sure it wont beat this one. Excellent movie....I give it the best rating possible. I was blown away by the end.

TOTALLY MIND BLOWING MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just saw inception today, bout 5 minutes ago... wtf wow. i mean the ending itself is worth an entire review, the movie as a whole....WOW. ok so as for the movie, it was amazing. weird thing is i started being able to guess at how things would turn out (like how the beginning of the movie was actually an end) and normally i hate that, but this movie actually made it work perfectly and although i guessed it i had to second guess myself about how it tied in...the movie wasnt hard at all for me to follow, yet my mind was always thinking...freaking amazing. as for the end...holy hell...i mean it can go both ways. A.- the top fell, he is back in reality, his wife was wrong... now my parents and i argue this but here is proof that it fell- in our world, if a top starts to wiggle it will fall...also in the end he was able to see his kid's faces, while before he wast B.-the top didnt fall, he is still trapped, his wife was right...in our world the top would have fell, but had it been a dream, the top could wiggle all it wanted but it doesnt mean it would have fallen, dreams are just weird that way.. next, just because he saw his kids faces doesnt mean anything. in the middle when the girl went into his dream and was told that in the MEMORY he couldnt see the faces....thats because it was just that, a memory which he admitted he could not change. next, throughout the movie when the kids are seen (besides the memory) they are running away, so no reason to have seen their faces at that time..also, nowhere in the movie did it say he couldnt see them in his dreams, because we never entered his dreams, because he couldnt dream other then inducing his sleep, and while he did that he only focused on keeping his memories, not creating a new dream. in conclusion....see inception damn it...best movie i have seen in a long time, and you will be wondering about the end until you die

I thought this was a very good move, loved it. Did anyone else get the same impression that I had? When waking up in the plane at the end, I immediately thought that Cob (DiCaprio) was on a 10 hr flight home from who knows where, possibly taken some kind of sleeping aid and the whole move was his personal dream. Prior to take off, he saw the other passengers on the plane and incorporated them into his personal dream. That was the whole movie. Very well done but not rocket science.