Movie Review - Inception

Following the plot on this movie is like peering inside an intricate old watch while riding a rollercoaster. The story is well told, and it was a lot of fun.

It is a caper film, with the Leonardo DiCaprio leading the team of dream bandits, where the caper is usually to break into someone's dreams and steal their (highly valuable) secrets. The whole exercise is really like a burglary and con game all rolled into one, which takes place in a landscape limited only by the imagination.

The first Christopher Nolan film I saw was Memento. I thought the plot device for telling the story backwards through the eyes of the ultimate unreliable narrator, a man who can't make any new memories. This is a problem when the last thing he DOES remember is his wife's murder. He is obsessed with finding the killer. Any time he discovers a clue he has it tattooed on himself. It starts with the last clue, and kind of unwinds until he discovers the first.

Inception requires the same sort of mental gymnastics to follow the plot, but with a double shot of adrenalin thrown in for good measure.