Chris Nolan, director of the new Batman franchise and Memento brings us a big budget action blockbuster with a plot. Leonardo Di Caprio is Cobb, an expert in entering people's dreams to steal secrets. Employed to instead insert an idea (Inception) by Saito (Ken Watanabe) he assembles a team that can help him do this. The result is something like a cross of James Bond and Blade Runner.
As layers of subconscious are traversed in the dreamworld, the dream worlds become more expansive but the subconscious more aggressive in it's self defense. The vision is cinematic, the action compelling and crucially purposeful, an integral part of the plotting, while the plot pulls you along, keeping you guessing right to the end where you're headed.
I'd have much less reason to complain about Hollywood if they made films like this more often.
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