Inception is a breath of fresh air for movies!

Things have been a bit lukewarm at ye old picture house this year. Aside from a select few real great movies (Toy Story 3 comes to mind most recently) people seem to be pretty bored with what Hollywood has served up in the first half of 2010. Enter director: Chris Nolan.

He’s really one of the best filmmakers working today, you just need to look up his name and see his resume. He unleashes something every 2 years or so, slowly baking new ideas with his crew and serving them up when they’re good and ready. Inception is his latest and greatest and judging by other reviews and the box office results, he’s made some very happy viewers.

Inception is a complicated movie. At it’s core, it’s about working in peoples dreams. There’s a way in, you can manipulate the environment, the dreamer, steal ideas and get out. That’s called “Extraction”. “Inception” is the act of planting an idea in someones head. Inception is the difficult task given to Mr. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his team.

That’s the gist of it. You won’t get everything in just one viewing, there’s a lot of wild concepts, terminology and just general mind bending stuff at play here. The visuals are incredible, the direction clean and precise, the soundtrack fittingly epic and the cast is just fantastic. Inception is a mix of The Matrix (in terms of sci-fi) and your favorite Jason Bourne/Italian Job type heist movie. I absolutely love the concept of it and the execution of it is just of the highest caliber, we don’t see these kinds of movies out of Hollywood that often. Inception grabbed me hook, line and sinker. I look forward to seeing it again to connect more of the dots.

I think the less you know the better it will be for you. Just know that it’s easily the best movie of the year and enjoy the ride.