Inception Review

Inception


Release Date: 22nd July 2010 - Australia


Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures (presentation)
Legendary Pictures (in association with)
Syncopy

Distribution
Roadshow Films


Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 148 minutes


Budget: $160,000,000

Box Office Gross: $839,030,630 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary

Dom Cobb is the best-

skilled thief in the

dangerous art of

extraction by stealing

valuable secrets through

the subconscious mind

during the dream state

when at its most

vulnerable. His rare

ability puts Cobb in

demand in the dangerous

new world of corporate

espionage, making him an

international fugitive and

costing him everything

he has ever loved. Now

Cobb has a chance to

redeem himself. The only

way to get his life back is

one last job, but only if he

can achieve the impossible

- inception.

Rather than the perfect

heist, Cobb and his team

of specialists must pull the

opposite: their job is not to

take an idea but plant one.

If they manage to do it, it

could be the perfect crime.

However, no planning or

expertise can prepare the

team for the danger that

seems to anticipate their

every move. It was an

enemy that only Cobb

could have seen coming.

Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio - Dominic "Dom" Cobb
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Arthur
Ellen Page - Ariadne
Tom Hardy - Eames
Ken Watanabe - Mr. Saito
Dileep Rao - Yusuf
Cillian Murphy - Robert Michael Fischer
Tom Berenger - Peter Browning
Marion Cotillard - Mallorie "Mal" Cobb
Pete Postlehwaite - Maurice
Fischer
Michael Caine - Prof. Stephen Miles
Lukas Naas - Nash
Tai-Li Lee - Tadashi
Claire Geare - Phillipa (3 Years Old)
Magnus Nolan - James (20
Months Old)
Taylor Geare - Phillipa (5 Years Old)
Johnathan Geare - James (3 Years Old)
Tohoru Masamune - Japanese Security Guard
Yuji Okumoto - Saito's Attendant
Earl Cameron - Elderly Bald Man

Jack Gilroy - Old Cobb

Shannon Welles - Old Mal

Crew
Writer/Producer/Director - Christopher Nolan

Script Supervisor - Steve Gehrke

Associate Producer: Canada -

Thomas Hayslip
Executive Producers - Chris Brigham
and Thomas Tull
Producer - Emma Thomas

Co-Producer - Jordan Goldberg

Casting Director - John Papsidera
Production Designer - Guy Hendrix Dyas
Supervising Art Director - Brad Ricker
Supervising Art Director: UK - Frank Walsh
Art Directors - Luke Freeborn and Dean Wolcott
Art Directors: UK - Jason Knox-Johnston,
Paul Laugier and Andy Tomson

Set Decorators - Larry Dias and Douglas A. Mowat

Set Decorator: UK - Lisa Chugg

Property Master: UK - Barry Gibbs
Costume Designer - Jeffrey Kurland

Costume Supervisor - Bob Morgan

Costume Supervisor: UK - Ken Crouch

Assistant Costume Designer - Terry Anderson

Armourer - Harry Lu
Director of Photography - Wally Pfister

Underwater Director of Photography - Pete Romano

Aerial Director of Photography - Hans Bjerno

First Assistant Camera - Bob Hall

Location Managers - Ilt Jones and

J.J. Hook

Location Manager: Morocco - Emma Pill

Unit Production Manager - Jan Foster

Unit Production Manager: UK - Mark Mostyn

Production Manager: Canada - Sam Breckman

First Assistant Director - Nilo Otero
Stunt Coordinators - Tom Struthers,

Sy Hollands and Brent Woosley

Supervising Aerial Coordinator: UK -

Mike Woodley

Helicopter Pilot - Craig Hosking

Picture Car Coordinator - Tyler Gaisford

Picture Car Coordinator: UK - Ian Clarke

Special Effects Supervisor - Chris Corbould
Special Effects Coordinator - Scott R. Fisher

Visual Effects Supervisor - Paul J. Franklin
Visual Effects Supervisors: Double Negative -
Pete Bebb, Andrew Lockley and Rob Hodgson
Visual Effects Producer - Mike Chambers

Compositing Sequence Supervisors: Double

Negative - Graham Page, George Zwier,

Astrid Busser-Casas, Tilman Paulin,

Jan Maroske, Richard R. Reed, Scott Pritchard,

Tom Hocking, Sean Heuston and Julian Gnass
Editor - Lee Smith

Additional Editor - John Lee
Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor -
Richard King

Production Sound Mixer - Ed Novick

Sound Effects Recording Mixers - John P. Fasal

and Eric Potter

Re-Recording Mixers - Lora Hirschberg

and Gary A. Rizzo

Additional Re-Recording Mixer - Michael Babcock

Foley Artists - John Roesch and

Alyson Dee Moore

Music/Synth Programming - Hans Zimmer

Composer: Additional Music/Score Co-Producer -
Lorne Balfe

Ambient Music Design - Mel Wesson

Supervising Music Editor - Alex Gibson

Score Recordist - Geoff Foster

Score Mixer - Alan Meyerson


Awards

2011 Academy Awards
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister (Won)
Best Sound Editing - Richard King (Won)
Best Sound Mixing - Lora Hirschberg,

Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick (Won)
Best Visual Effects - Chris Corbould,

Andrew Lockley, Pete Bebb and Paul J. Franklin (Won)
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Best Art Direction - Larry Dias, Guy Hendrix Dyas

and Douglas A. Mowat (Nominated)
Best Original Score - Hans Zimmer (Nominated)
Best Picture (Nominated)
Best Original Screenplay - Christopher Nolan
(Nominated)


Review
The most interesting conceptual picture that Christopher Nolan has ever done was INCEPTION. The film can be a mind job but is very dramatic, and everything before your eyes in it has so much detail. It is modestly breathtaking. This movie has set a new standard of sci-fi/action. It introduces an extraordinary concept of going into a state of a dream within a dream and tricking people into changing their thoughts as they wake up with different ideas, not knowing where these thoughts have originated. Or that they have been a victim of inception. One of the things this picture achieves is it builds an inventive and complex story. It will draw viewers into all the answers to the plot and witness the conclusion. The film's ending is ambiguous, and you need to rewatch the movie again because it is such a spectacle.

In terms of direction, Christopher Nolan solidified his place as one of the biggest names in the Hollywood industry and a director to keep an eye on helming his upcoming movies. There's never a dull moment in this feature. It has incredible visuals, highly commendable acting from Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page and a powerful music score by Hans Zimmer.

I'm surprised that INCEPTION has done so well in originality, and there has been no innovative breakthrough in cinema since The Matrix. I would add this one to the collection and watch it again.

Star rating: (5/5) Best Movie Ever

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