Saw Inception last night (yes, we were a bit slowww in getting to the theater on that one) at the cheap seats. What a GREAT movie! Sure, it was obviously influenced heavily by The Matrix (as to both the ‘bullet-time’ slow-mo filmmaking and to some degree, the dream-premise behind the movie itself) but it’s yet another great movie by Christopher Nolan (who has already made two better Batman movies than ALL the previous ones combined!).

And another nicety – this was one of the only recent movies where they don’t explain the entire movie plot in an over-long trailer shown for weeks beforehand (which is why I’ve been avoiding TRON trailers like the plague until it debuts in a few weeks). Even though you see some pivotal sequences in the Inception trailer – there’s little to no way you’d figure out the plot from them given how the basic premise is very different than you’d expect, and that seeing them in isolation without knowing what is going on – doesn’t help. Kudos again to Mr. Nolan!

I also liked that Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t given the ‘center of everything’ to the exclusion of the rest of the cast – as is often seen in movies where there is a ‘big star’ surrounded by either up-and-comers (here, Ellen Page and even more so, Cillian Murphy) veterans (Michael Caine – is he now going to be in all Nolan’s movies? :), Tom Berenger) and comparative newcomers (the rest of the key cast). This is definitely a movie where all the key players largely play against one another time and again throughout the movie, and it really *works*.

If you can (and haven’t yet seen this movie), see it in a theater or at a friend’s house with a big home theater system – you will be thankful. This is one of those movies that definitely makes far more impact on a big screen.

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