Inception

Lets face it any film from writer/director Christopher Nolan, the man responsible for the reverse murder mystery of Memento, the new Batman franchise and the brilliance of the one no ones ever heard of The Prestige , was going to worth paying attention to.

Nolan as always has assembled a cast based only on their acting brilliance, rather than on their box-office draw, actors such as Ellen Page (Juno), Tom Hardy (Bronson), Marion Cotillard (Nine), Joseph Gordon-LevittJoseph (500 days of Summer), Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins) and Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai). There are also a couple of ‘no way its that guy’ cameos from Tom Beranger (Platoon, and not a lot else worth mentioning) and Pete Postlethwaite, who during the mid 90’s seemed to appear in everything, and who until his cameo in the remake of Clash of the Titans I thought had just dropped off the map, into straight-to-video hell, much like Steve Guttenberg, who during the 80’s seemed to be in everything.

Inception is based around a simple idea, what if people could enter your dreams, and if such a thing was possible there would no doubt be people who would take advantage, and this is where Leonardo DiCaprio comes in. DiCaprio plays a man who, with help, enters peoples minds through their dreams, with the aim of stealing important information from the dreamers own mind. He is then hired by Watanabe to infiltrate the mind of his competitor Murphy, and plant an idea, which will lead Murphy to dissolve his company. For all its sci-fi ideas inception quickly turns into the most spectacular heist movie your ever likely to see, as DiCapro and his team delve deep into Murphy’s consciousness , dreams within dreams.