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Here's what you need to do, going into Inception:

• Bring coke beforehand (you wouldn't wanna be distracted by thirst during the 2.5hr film).
• Pee before the movie. and i don't mean a normal pee. I mean EMPTY that bladder, cos even if you've missed 5 minutes of the film, please, go buy another ticket for the next showing.
• Bring your brain.

Yeap, for those of you thinking you can simply chuck your brain at home while watching summer flicks, I really hate to say this, but THINK AGAIN. You're watching a Christopher Nolan film, the maestro who brought you Memento, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight.

His films are so inventive and intense that by the end of Inception, you will be experiencing MMORPG. Yeah, that's short for Massive Multiple Orgasmic Pleasure, GODDDDDDDDDDDDD.

Having said that, as long as you're willing to concentrate and focus during the film, its not that hard to understand what's going on. Sure, nobody will really get 100% of what Nolan's trying to say, but then again, only he will truly know.

Alright then, on to the review proper.

Inception tells the story of Dom Cobb (Leo DiCaprio) and his team of Dream Explorers. Specifically, he is a master extractor. He goes deep into the subconscious of his mark, and retrieves their deepest, darkest secrets while they are asleep. As such, he becomes a prized asset for companies indulging in corporate espionage.

And because of the highly illegal nature of his job, and the fact that he may have killed his wife, he is currently an international fugitive. He is promised a clean slate and return to his kids in the States if he completes one last job for his client, Saito (Ken Watanabe)

As usual, this last job is never easy, and instead of the usual Extraction, Cobb and team has to perform an Inception. Instead of extracting information from a competitor, Cobb needs to plant an idea into the head of Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), heir of Saito's greatest competitor, of whom the father is a dying man.

For an inception to happen (if its even possible), Cobb and team will have to go deep into the recesses of the mark's mind, and plant the simplest form of the idea, so that the mark can accept that idea as his own, and let it grow and fester in his mind.

So, with the mission laid out, Cobb has to form a team. There's trusted team mate and point-man Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Ariadne (Ellen Page) the Architect who builds the dream worlds, Eames (Tom Harding) the Forger. Yusof (Dileep Rao) the Chemist rounds up the team.

The first 45 minutes or so, the film introduces us to the concept of dreams, and the rules that govern them. The roles of each team member are also detailed, alongside the mission outline.

Leo is obviously gay for playing with sandcastles when there are other playthings in the immediate vicinity!

Basically to plant an idea, the team has to go not 1, but 3 levels deep. We're talking about a dream within a dream, within a dream! And now that we know the rules of the game, and what's at stake, its time for the show to begin.

And what a show it was! Straddling 3 different dreams with 3 different time lapses, it really takes full concentration to keep up with the action. And kudos to Christopher Nolan, who brings to life such a high concept, and not only manages to fuse awesome action sequences together beautifully, but also to make a film that doesn't insult the viewers' intelligence.

We will talk about this film for a long time to come.

M. Night. Shyamalan, after watching this film, will no doubt weep himself to sleep under the covers of his ineption.

Don't take my word for it that this film is great. Take Damon Lindelof's.

Watch this film. Then, watch it again, and then buy the DVD.

Rating: 5/5

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• |218.186.8.xxx |2010-07-26 19:50:11 riley
  this by far, is the best-est-est argument i have come across claiming that the entire flick is designed as a dream
  
  http://chud.com/articles/articles/24477/1/NEVER-WAKE-UP-THE-MEANING-AND-SECRET-OF-INCEPTION/Page1.html
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