day 2.235

inception delivers

chris nolan has done it again. and i say that without ever have seen the dark knight. yes, i'm one of (probably) two people on the planet who has not seen the dark knight nor avatar, though both are on my netflix queue. anyway, i digress. nolan's latest theatrical effort, the leonardo dicaprio thriller inception, does anything but disappoint at the theater. the movie follows leo and 500 days of summer's joshua gordon levit as dream hackers, a duo who go into peoples' dreams to steal information. the duo are offered the chance to carry out an inception, rather than an extraction, where they are to plan an idea in someone's subconscious rather than take one out. leo and levit are joined by ellen page as their "dream architect" and a couple of
comrades to get into cillian murphey's head and tell him to break up his family business, all at the hands of ken watanabe, a businessman desperate to end his competition's domination of the energy industry. complicated enough for you? just wait until marion cotilliard is thrown in as leo's unstable wife who haunts not only his dreams, but the dreams he travels into. inception is everything you want and more in a summer thriller, but runs a little (and by "a little" I mean a
lot) long at 2.5 hours. the plot and inconsistencies amongst the dream worlds gets a little confusing, but you should get the gist. my biggest complaint is that dicaprio seems to have painted himself into a corner in the sense that this role is eerily similar to his turn in last winter's shutter island. none the less, still go and see it. and check out the trailer above if you have no clue what i'm talking about (read: you've been living under a rock).