Inception (2010)

10 years before, Director Christopher Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers. He originally envisioned it as a horror film, but eventually wrote it as a heist film. After pitching the idea to Warner Bros. Studios in 2001, he felt he needed to have more experience into making large scale films such as the hit 2005 movie BATMAN BEGINS and its 2008 sequel THE DARK KNIGHT. He spent six months polishing the film’s script after he realized it needed a large budget because, in his words: "as soon as you’re talking about dreams, the potential of the human mind is infinite. And so the scale of the film has to feel infinite. It has to feel like you could go absolutely anywhere by the end of the film. And it has to work on a massive scale". Warner Bros. finally bought the script in February 2009 and with a budget of $160,000,000, Nolan and some of his crew members from The Dark Knight spent six months between June to November of that year filming his Action/Sci-Fi masterpiece INCEPTION. The film tells the story about Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a skilled thief and is the absolute best at what he does: Entering into the dreams of others by thrusting himself into the subconscious of his targets, thus obtaining information that is otherwise impossible to access but it has also made him an international fugitive and costing him everything he has ever loved. When he is being offered a second chance for redemption, Cobb takes on one last job that will hopefully give him his life back if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Along with his team of specialists: Arthur, the Point Man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer), Ariadne, the Architect (Ellen Page - Juno), Eames, the sharp-tongued Forger (Tom Hardy - RocknRolla), Yusuf, the Chemist (Dileep Rao - Avatar), and the Tourist, Saito (Ken Watanabe – The Last Samuari) have to pull off the reverse of planting an idea into the subconscious of their target: Robert Fischer, Jr. (Cillian Murphy – 28 Days Later), the heir of his dying father’s business corparation. The film also stars Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (2007, Best Actress – La Vie en Rose) as Cobb’s deceased wife Mal, Tom Berenger (Platoon) as Robert’s godfather Peter Browning, Lukas Haas (Witness) as Cobb’s previous Architect Nash, Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects) as Robert’s father Maurice, and Academy Award winner Michael Caine (1999, Best Supporting Actor - The Cider House Rules) as Cobb’s mentor and father-in-law Miles. When Nolan filmed The Dark Knight, he shot it in Chicago, London, and Tokyo. In this movie, he shot in six different cities: Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Calgary, and Morocco. Where in his words: “Photographing different extremes from heavy rain to burning sun and to incredible snowfall” in showing the incredible landscapes of the film. The first time I saw the theatrical trailer, I thought it looked really interesting. I went to see it and I really enjoyed it. The best scene of the movie is when Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character is running around the walls and ceiling of a hotel hallway while gravity has gone haywire. Gordon-Levitt himself did his own stunts for that sequence. I consider INCEPTION one of the best movies of 2010. It is a definite must see from me to you!