Inception

What: Inception
Where: Nuneaton Odeon
Who: Me, Becky, Mark, Nick and Emma
When: Tuesday July 20th 2010 at 9pm

Where on earth do you start writing a review of a film like Inception? 3 months ago nobody knew anything about this film it literally came from nowhere and like Christopher Nolan has done before it changes the world.

Inception will quite rightly draw inevitable comparisons with 1999’s The Matrix. But the fact of the matter is and this is going to be highly controversial. Inception is better!

In 1999 The matrix came along, nobody knew it was coming and after a slow start everyone sat up and listened and the effect that that film has had on cinema in the last 10 years is phenomenal. Inception didn’t have a slow start it opened with an opening weekend box office of $60million and make no mistake about it this film is as inspirational as the Matrix if not more so.

It scares me how good Inception is. It is directed by an academy award nominated director and it stars no less than 6 academy award nominees (Tom Beringer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pete Postlethwaite, Lukas Hass, Ken Watanabe and Ellen Page) and 2 winners (Michael Caine and Marion Cotillard) How DiCaprio doesn’t have a little gold man in his trophy cabinet yet is staggering. DiCaprio over the last 10 years or so has cemented himself as the most consistent and, I am going out on a limb again here, the best working actor in Hollywood at the minute. Christopher Nolan is a director that is on top of the world and can not put a step wrong. So what do you get when you cross the best director in the world with the best actor? Well you get Inception.

Inception has a handful of British stars. It is no secret that I am not a fan of British cinema and when you see this and find out what some of our stars are capable of it makes you wonder how British cinema fails so badly. (Don’t you dare scream Slumdog millionaire at me, that was 2 years ago. get over it.)

Everybody in this film is an incredible talent and Nolan gets the best out of every single one of them. If I had to pick a stand out performance which I do,(not including Di-Caprio I’ve already praised him) I would have gone for former sitcom star Joseph Gordon Levitt but then Tom Hardy turned up and threatened to steal the whole show with his campy performance as Eames. This guy is a talent to watch out for and to think I thought he could only play British east end gangster types. Stay in Hollywood Tom leave this island behind it wont do you any favours.

At this point in my review I would normally pick out the parts that I didn’t like or areas that let the film down. Please find these bullet pointed below.
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Honestly and this is something that I very rarely say about anything in life. This film has nothing wrong with it. It couldn’t be better. IT IS PERFECT.
10/10 films don’t come along very often in fact in my whole life I reckon I have only seen about 10. Make that 11

10/10