Inception
is, quite handily, the best film of the year so far.
It will be, once nagging comparisons to The Matrix
slough off in years to come, be considered a sci-fi classic
on par with films like Blade Runner and the like.
It will, as if it was even needed cement Christopher Nolan
not only as a patron saint of geeks the world over but as a
director of immeasurable talent that can, and will,
consistently release original, thought-provoking work for
the rest of his career.
Review - Inception
Inception is an epic, brilliant film and quite
honestly, I don’t want to say anything else about it.
For the first time in a very long time, I approached
Inception knowing nearly nothing about it. I knew that
a perennial favorite of mine was directing the film from an
original script. I knew that some sort of crime was
involved. And I knew that the cast was stacked with
some of the most talented young (and older) actors in cinema
these days. Plotwise though, I knew nothing. I’d
avoided the interviews, the featurettes, the first, second,
third and international trailer - none of these had passed
my vision and as I entered the film on Monday night, I was
completely in the dark about what this enigma of a film
might entail.
And that is the way you need to see it. I’m sure at
this point, this may be a moot point. You, the
information soaked denizens of the internet have certainly
digested as much information as possible about this hotly
anticipated bit of film. You’ve eaten up the trailers,
the posters, the electronic press kits like the media hungry
society we’ve become. Well, moot point aside, I will
not help to alter even slightly wherever you might stand
currently in your knowledge of this film. I will let
you the viewer step in to the theater tonight or tomorrow or
whenever knowing only that I highly recommend each and every
second of this film and that these few, less-than-revealing
bits of information were only the tip of the iceberg in
terms of what I loved about this film:
1. Tom Hardy. I’ve seen nothing else that this dapper
fellow has been in (shame on me), but heavens above, the man
can act, the man can fight, the man very easily blew me
away. Bronson has leaped to the forefront of my
Netflix Queue.
2. The heist. I’m a heist film sort of guy. I
relish a good heist. I sit through terrible films
hoping that the heist will redeem them. Inception
has perhaps the greatest heist of all time.
Complicated, difficult, multi-limbed but so perfectly
executed in both story and film direction that every member
of the audience I viewed this film with cheered when it
reached its epic conclusion. My mouth is still a
little ajar.
The tip of the iceberg good readers, just the very tip.
I implore, run don’t skip or hop or jump to the theater.
Noah Sanders is the blog/news editor at Light In The
Attic and a contributor at Sound On The Sound and
the KEXP blog. He also has his own
Criterion-based film site, Criterion Quest.
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