The web is buzzing with rave reviews on Chris Nolan's latest epic "Inception" starring Leonardo Dicaprio. It's not yet showing in Manila but based on the news, the movie has piqued my interest and will see it with my son soon as Inception hits theaters here.
Below are some of the reviews from the web:
From The Washington Post:
"Drawing as much inspiration from Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier as he does from M.C. Escher, Nolan nonetheless manages to create a world all his own in "Inception." And that's a world that, while clearly a product of an auteur's idiosyncratic impulses, meets viewers at precisely that subliminal state between dream and reality where movies work best."
from the San Francisco Chronicle:
"Inception" is a mind-warping science-fiction epic, a rebooted "Matrix" for Generation Z, a paranoid corporate thriller and one-last-job heist movie. It's also an odyssey of delayed homecoming, a grief-soaked ode to the Freudian subconscious - a layered labyrinthine meditation on the seduction and impact of dreams. This is spellbinding, transporting, damn near indescribable and the latest indication that Christopher Nolan might be the slyest narrative tactician making movies today."
Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars!
The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It's a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his "Memento" (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backwards. (More of the review here)
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