Inception, a personal review

Cover of Inception

I've just had the pleasure of a weekend movie spree, starting with Inception on Friday, Karate Kid on Saturday, and Splice on Sunday evening.

Inception was something i've been dying to watch ever since it came out about a week ago. The plot and storyline weren't too hard to follow if one keeps tabs on the opening and closing of the each dream session, which would give the explicit number of sessions as portrayed in the storyline - just under a handful. Whether there exist other sessions encapsulating the overall universe of the plot or subsequent sessions at the finality of the movie is open to debate.

The visuals and stunts are breath taking; one scene in particular which sidesteps the usual Hollywood dismissal as CGI or sound stage illusion is the prolonged free fall effect inside a building. It instills as sense of wonder and awe as to how it could have been achieved, something which hardly any movie elicits nowadays.

The cast include heavy hitters Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine. Joseph Gordon-Levitt of the fame 3rd Rock from the Sun and Ellen Page (Juno) add to the line up amongst others.

Overall it's a movie worth watching but does not live up to the hype that's come to surround it.