Inception (2010)

A relatively fresh idea is introduced to western audiences in a film that manages to successfully immerse the spectator in an engaging world, even if this comes at the cost of compromising certain aspects of the movie. According to the story, a group of extraordinary specialists try to tamper with the subconscious of a man who can potentially monopolize in the energy industry and change the global financial and political setting. Actually, the film never gets all that political and everything exists only as a background to a much simpler, appropriately tied in, central-character-focused scenario. Something between Ocean's 11 and Matrix, Inception introduces quite a few characters and never brings them closer to the spotlight than deemed necessary in order to tell the story as intended. It works and it is preferable to the unrealistic progression of a certain key character that takes place in spite of the universally good performances. It stands as evidence to a prioritized direction which nevertheless makes sure that, not only have the obvious inspirations been adequately filtered to create a world with its own personality and distinct realism, not only does it illustratively explain an outstanding plot, but also provides a nice pace that gives plenty of urge to the spectator to forgive any presentational inconsistencies or whatever gratuitous surrealistic devices are used in the process. No matter the successful outcome, once everything about what happened in the film has been sorted out in one's mind, there will be little more to discuss about in the film's context. But in the 140 minutes the movie lasts, there will probably be no desire to talk about anything. Recommended.