Back With A Bang, And A Film I Have Seen 4 Times....Already

This is so weird, I was almost certain that this blog had been removed from the internet. Maybe it has been, and the internet in Staffordshire is just subject to different rules, I don't know, but I am slipping in a quick review before it all gets taken away from me again. A quick update for you; I have literally spent hundreds of pounds at the cinema recently, I can't stop going. And one film I saw many times was Inception, a film which blew my face right off its hinges.....if my face had hinges I mean.

Do I really need to go into the plot? Surely you have all seen it already?! I mean, it is the best film I have seen in the last 5 years, and is in my all time top 5, how can you not have seen it? It literally got perfect 5 star reviews from every film publication in the world....ever! Il explain it to you anyways.

Inception is a mind fuck, no two ways about it. The story follows Cobb (Leo DiCaprio) who is an 'Extractor', which means his job is to enter peoples dreams and extract ideas and thoughts from their conscience, and he is the best in his craft. To be honest, to try and fully explain the plot is almost impossible, it has so many levels and so many totally unheard of concepts that I would be here forever describing it, but the basic idea is that Cobb is given an assignment by Saito (Ken Watanabe) who was a victim of Cobb's extraction; but rather than extracting an idea, Cobb is asked to insert an idea, a practice labelled 'Inception'. Although the practice is said to be impossible, Cobb has no choice as his employers who hired him to extract Saito are hunting him for failing, and Saito offers him a way back into the U.S, where he is wanted for the apparent murder of his wife, and where his two small children still reside with their Grandparents. Unable to turn down the chance of seeing his sprogs agin he accepts the offer, and so entails the assembling of a team, a team capable of performing Inception, consisting of Arthur (an incredible Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Ariadne (the ever lovable Elen Page), Eames (everyones new fave British actor Tom Hardy) and the fore mentioned Saito. The plan is to inspire young rich-bag Robert Fischer, to dissolve his fathers huge energy empire so Saito's company does'nt get blown out the water, but to perform Inception, the team cannot just go into Robert's dream; they have to delve deep enough into his psyche to plant a seed of an idea, and let it grow naturally. This means once inside his dream, they must enter a dream inside that dream, and once in that dream, enter another dream, so they are essentially three dreams deep. God if you haven't seen this film yet I must sound like a fucking nutter right now. I wont go further than that, because if you haven't got around to seeing it yet I don't want to ruin your life, but there is mad backstory and loads of moral questioning that I cannot delve into here. Plus all the wall walking

Yeah Im walking on a wall! AND WHAT?????

The reason everything works so well is the way that Nolan directs. Have you ever heard that thing, like, your dreams only last about 30 seconds, but they seem like ages when your in them? well the premise of the film is that that compounds when you enter a dream within a dream and so forth, so when the assignment is being carried out we have a spectacular timeline of events on each level, with a crazy riveting car chase in the 1st dream, a mad gravity defying fight sequence in the second, and a Tom Clancy style assault on the 3rd level of the dream, all played out in real time, but at different speeds. Fuck it, I cannot explain what I mean in words, you just have to go watch it!

But is it good? OH MY SWEET JESUS YES!!!! It is hands down the best film I have seen in a long time, and I don't mean to just jump on the Chris Nolan bandwagon, but the guys a fucking genius. The cast is awesome, with an in form DiCaprio (being is Shutter Island and Inception in an actors career would be brilliant, to do both in one year is kind of taking the piss Leo, we know your amazing, stop it)

"How is it Im shitting on all other actors ever without even trying? Am I a God?"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt proving he isn't all mushy rom-com typecast man (not that I didn't love 500 Days of Summer) Elen Page is charming, Tom Hardy provides the snippets of comedy, Marion Cotillard (whose role I cant explain without ruining plot points) is haunting, and everyone is tied into this mad world and this insane concept that Nolan thought up himself. To make it even better he refused to shoot it in 3D, as he thought it would distract from the story (a man after my own heart). I know I haven't done a great job at inspiring you all to see it if you haven't yet, but just ask anyone who has, they will say the exact same thing, "Why are you not at the cinema right now watching it?". Im fucking serious, if you haven't enjoyed Inception yet you shouldn't even be sitting at you god damned computer! Get your ass up and get to the cinema fools, your mind is yet to be BLOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictured: Blown minds.....and a suave Godon-Levitt

God I'm out of practice, if this blog is still her tomorrow I promise to do a film better justice by review than I have today! I couldn't even think of funny captions

Till next time...if there is one

Peace