“INCEPTION” WORTH DREAMING ABOUT (FIVE HEARTBEATS)
Moviebeat movie review from radio broadcast 7/26
Even though the summer movie season is not over yet, it’s safe to say that the best movie for the season has already been released. Sorry Julia, but it’s not Eat, Pray, Love.
Led by the talented direction of The Dark Knight’s Christopher Nolan, Inception is a film that grabs hold of you from the start and doesn’t let go even after the ending.
The film is packed with a superb cast, scenic film locations and a storyline with enough power on its own to prompt audience intrigue – Can you put ideas into people’s dreams?
Inception has all the ingredients to top the season’s hyped remakes and sequels to show what a true action-adventure, suspense film should be.
The storyline circles around the notion of whether our dreams can be controlled. Can a loved one live on inside a person’s dreams? Can you put an idea into a person’s head and make it seem like an original thought to them?
Inception plays about with those exact questions as a team of dream thieves try to infiltrate the sleeping mind of a billionaire’s neglected son (Batman Begins’Cillian Murphy) to “incept” the idea of separating his dying father’s company.
As the team get more entangled in the dreams of the son, they start to realize that not everyone on the team is working with a clear mind and those thoughts could sabotage the entire mission.
I’ve not been much of a DiCaprio fan but this is definitely a new favorite of mine that he has helmed. Playing a man whose thoughts betray him, DiCaprio carries the mental and physical burdens of his character and demonstrates why he is at the peak of the acting pyramid.
DiCaprio is joined by a supporting cast of indie favorites such as Ellen Page (Juno), Ken Watanabe (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Murphy. One supporting cast member, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, almost outshines DiCaprio in the film, showing his acting capabilities
far surpass romantic comedies.
A unique film that carries as many twists and turns as a game of cat’s cradle, Inception will have your heart pounding and your mind wondering about what will happen when you sleep tonight.
Best advice: Go to the bathroom before the film starts so you don’t miss anything!
Five Heartbeats
Soon to be DVD Rental: Letters to Juliet – starring Mammia Mia’s Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave, the film creates a predictable love story around the real life letter writing spot in Verona, Italy where women leave letters to be answered by Shakespeare’s Juliet. Highlights of the film are Redgrave’s endearing performance and picturesque glimpses at the Italian countryside.
Three Heartbeats
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