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Inception the Imax Experience
PostedJuly 18, 2010
BlastRadius
from Paramus, New Jersey
*SPOILERS*I knew from the first time I saw this trailer that I was going to love this movie. I was so hyped for it. And after possibly the worst year for movies in my lifetime, I was perhaps too hyped. So let me start out by saying that Inception is not a perfect movie and it's not better than the Dark Knight. That said, it is one of the most ambitious and smartest movies in recent years. It takes elements from films like Solaris, the Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Nightmare of Elm Street and blends them into a surreal and elegant new sci-fi thriller. It feels as epic as the dark knight and that's why it should really be seen in imax. Some things that I found to be flaws were things like the elevator scene. Really there is only one reason why that scene existed and it wasn't to push the story forward, it was so that they could have an anti-gravity action scene with an explosion. To be fair it was a cool enough scene that I am able to forgive it. In fact, it was probably the best fight scene in the whole movie, but it was really not something that was necessary and felt a bit crowbarred in there. My other main issue is Watanabe Ken. For some reason he is the only Japanese actor that gets roles in American movies. When he speaks Japanese I understand him fine, and when he speaks English in interviews I understand him too, but in movie roles he puts on this whispery hollywood-mystical, almost jackie chan-like generic asian accent, and it detracted so much from the film for me because I couldn't understand him about half of the time. Luckily, his dialogue wasn't terribly important, and I understood the point regardless of this flaw. Finally I had some issues that are unsettled in my head and I guess I'll have to watch the movie again to know whether or not this is a plot hole, but when he is in limbo with his wife, I don't understand how he could have performed an inception on her. Limbo seems to be the lowest level of consciousness. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that he could have put them into a shared dream while trapped in limbo. My friend argued with me that they were not trapped in limbo, just in a regular shared dream, but in that case I don't understand why they were there for close to 50 years. So, I'm a little confused there. It's not something that ruins the movie nor something that makes you unclear about the ending or anything like that. So again, it's just a trivial little issue of mine. So what's left? Pure goodness if you ask me. All the performances were awesome. The premise was awesome. The CG, the sound engineering, Joseph Gordon Levitt... The best part might have been that ending. It was extremely tasteful to leave it open. Going one way or the other would have been equally arbitrary. This is the best ending they could have gone with. I was blown away. I'm sorry I'm not good at reviewing movies in a positive way, I'm better with criticism. The things I liked were kind of abstract. I like that they employ architecture into this. I liked when they asked Ellen Page to design the maze. I liked the fact that they didn't try to explain how the shared dream machine works. I liked that the different levels of consciousness were layered, and that there was a hyperbolic time shift like in Dragonball Z. I liked how symbolism, such as vaults were used effectively. You know, what it comes down to I think, is that lucid dreams are just about the coolest things ever, and they are depicted in such a way that they are both adequately explored, and also make sense, while being badass. The subject matter is really one of the coolest things a movie could ever possibly be about, and it was done so well that... if the negative takes away half of a star, then the positive aspects add 5 stars stars. and I give the movie a 4.5 out of 5.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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