Inception Options

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For the first time in my entire life I have seen the same movie 3 times in a row in the cinema in the run of 2 weeks.

Who else enjoyed it?

[Pokey]

It was very good. If Christohper Nolan could just direct every movie coming out of Hollywood we would be a much better race. One of the few who just continues to do better and better with each release.

Inception was great, I'm not a big Leo fan, like a few other actors, I'm very aware that he is acting, and that hurt it a bit here too. It's not that he's bad, but he can never really sell a character to me, I always just see it as Leo acting. Ellen Page's gorgeousness distracted me from him when they were on screen together so that helped!
It wasn't 100% original and it wasn't exactly as complex as I thought it would be, I followed along properly with the first watch.

But it was gripping .. never wasted a moment, had you completely sucked in at every turn. Every single scene meant something and fit, didn't seem like anything was left on the cutting room floor. Joseph Gordon Levitt .. man that guy is just Heath Ledger incarnate really. I know Nolan doesn't want to do The Joker again without Ledger, but JGV could easily pull off a cameo under the make up, the similarities are scary.
Sad Michael Caine didn't get more screen time, more movies need Michael Caine.
The action and effects were glorious without looking too CGI or over the top, very well pulled off. I love how Nolan prefers things to actually be pulled off in live action rather than CGI .. the truck flipping scene from The Dark Knight for example, they actually flipped a whole semi trailor truck rather than computerised it. There's something about when you do that gives it a magic, like the Zero Gravity fight scenes in Inception.
Besides Leo I thought the casting was perfect. Def need to see it again.

7.5/10 (and I'm a hard marker)