Inception Movie Reviews

It’s a brain-bender, all right. One of the more audacious narrative experiments since his own Memento (2000), writer-director Nolan’s seventh feature is every bit as intelligent as it is gripping. For starters, consider the concept. A hi-tech security consultant (DiCaprio) has devised a contraption that allows him to sneak into people’s dreams and extract vital corporate secrets. To complicate matters, his own subconscious is haunted

An honest confession -- I watched Inception twice before attempting to put together my thoughts on Christopher Nolan's latest offering. The first viewing had me baffled and intrigued, as I struggled to offer a cohesive explanation to what had just happened on screen. The second attempt to solve the maze of trickery and illusions was quite similar to the first, except I realised that underneath all the multiple layers of complexity lies a simple love story.

The relationship between movies and dreams has always been — to borrow a term from psychoanalysis — over determined. From its first flickerings around the time Freud was working on The Interpretation of Dreams, cinema seemed to replicate the uncanny, image-making power of the mind, much as still photography had in the decades before. And over the course of the 20th century, cinema provided a vast, perpetually replenishing reservoir

Sedation, Injection, err Invictus sorry ‘Inception’, yes yes ‘Inception’! Well, we are not always as goofy when it comes to remembering movie names. It’s just that after watching Christopher Nolan’s futuristic espionage thriller containing some heavy dose of cerebral elements, we are tad too exhausted and mind-numbed. Interestingly, not because the film didn’t work for us but because it forced our brain to work! If this line sounded complicated?