Wut I Think: BWARRRRM

So. Inception. Supposed mindscrew from Christopher Nolan. Holy cow. This was a good movie.
Most of you probably know the premise, but for those who haven't seen it yet, well,
Cobb is a specialist who's skilled in "extracting" secrets FROM YOUR DREAMS. Turns out, he has some troubles with the law, so he needs to do one more job to get home. Without spoiling anything, he royally screws up the job and is hired by the person he was trying to extract from for the heist of his lifetime. Except he's not heist-ing anything. He's INCEPTIONIZING. BWARRRRM.

BWARRRRM.

Inception plays out like a standard heist flick. Cobb runs around gathering buddies so that they can go lollygagging together in the world of the dream. There's some nifty stuff here. You can tell that Christopher Nolan really thought out the whole concept of a Dream Heist well. The whole first half of the movie is dedicated to introducing the concept of Inception to Adrienne, the newbie to the team (and the stand in for the audience). The second half... WELL. That's something else entirely. 

While the first half drags a little, the second half more than makes up for it. Seeing the plan finally go into action is something awesome to behold. And that isn't hyperbole. The crew is jumping deeper and deeper into dream levels, making time move slower and slower in the levels above. What that means is that while everything at the current dream level moves at real time, the levels above it are moving a snails pace. Seeing the contrast between super slo-mo footage of a van driving backwards off a bridge and Cobb and Co blowing up a snow base made my jaw drop. 

Speaking of really pretty visuals, this film has it all. Everything looks incredibly smooth, even when they're not in the dream world. It's incredible i can't describe oh man. Nolan really knows how to shoot a film. And about the shooting... This movie has some of the cleanest looking action scenes I've seen over the last year. You can tell who's shooting at who, yet still feel the impact of each shot well.

The sound. Oh man. THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE AN AURAL COOKIE. The score is pretty cool too. Because it's Hans Zimmer. When you go with big sequences, Hans Zimmer never fails at giving the epic feel. And there's a neat little easter egg hidden in the music itself.

Ok. So yeah, this is an awesome movie. Like, totally Jawesome. Go see it. 

Inception Gets:

SO. FREAKING. KEWL.

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