Inception

A recent all star film seems like a good springboard....

Chris Nolan your directing skills have yet again stunned the masses. I appreciate your ability to combine innovative film making with blockbuster intensity. Equal parts writing to directing. I think he's on to something....

OK, this movie does have a pretty hefty story, and is not for the easily distracteed spectator. Dicaprio and Gordon-Levitt(who is growing on me)show us the ways around our subconcious through dream sharing. Stealing ideas is their expertise (extracting), while implanting ones is their challenge (inception). The movie takes us into unstructured dream space that lies within a dream, within a dream, within a dream. The deeper into the dreams, the deeper into the subconscious, which of course means the thicker the plot gets and the quieter the theatre.

Ken Wantanabe (the big wig), needs Cillian Murphy to break up his father's(Pete Postlethwaite, RIP) company from becoming the next energy superpower. The idea is to put the idea into Murphy's head so that he feels it is his own. Dicaprio accepts the challenge to have his name cleared with the US government and through the process puts some other personal issues to rest surrounding thie death of his wife Marion Cotillard.

Only qualm is that the process of obtaining Ellen Page's character is a little too flat. She is a talented college student that immediately jumps into constructing dreams after JUST hearing that the job is illegal? And we just accept that?!? Young unknown girl, most complex challenge ever created, lives at stake......and we stamp her our dream architect with no background check??

Ok, ok so obviously see it, but since it's out of most theatres now, find a big screen and some people that can focus. Appreciate the way Nolan has illustrated such complex concepts, and ask him if cliffhangers with no follow up films are going to be his signature.