Mubashir Mehmood

 INCEPTION Release date: September 11, 2010 (Pakistan) Director: Christopher Nolan Box office: 828.3 million USD Screenplay: Christopher Nolan Awards: Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Action Movie GENERE: SCIENCE FICTION Theme of Movie: Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone's mind. If he succeeds, it will be the perfect crime, but a dangerous enemy anticipates Cobb's every move Story: Leonardo DiCaprio is a very very special agent. He steals something that no one else can: dreams and ideas. They call him the idea extractor, which makes him one of the most wanted men in the world of industrial espionage. This time round, he has a different assignment: Inception, not extraction. Corporate honcho, Ken Watanbe employs him to break down a billion-dollar business rival by incepting an idea in the young turk, Robert Fischer Jr (Cillian Murphy) who must be forced to stand up against his father. Will our beleaguered sci-fi conjurer deliver? He must, specially if he wants to return home to his two kids and set the demons of his troubled past at rest. Movie Review: Christopher Nolan might just end up as the most alluring and enigmatic film maker of contemporary cinema. Memento, The Prestige, Dark Knight and now Inception: Nolan's oeuvre is definitely one of the most creative outpourings in commerce and cliche-ridden Hollywood. If you thought Memento teased your mind, try savouring Inception. It will leave you tortured, tormented, ticklish and tantalised with its mindplay. And if you think you can actually unravel this mind-boggler in one go, you're asking for the moon. It will leave you longing for one more dekko to get the picture straight....Too many levels of reality, too many things happening and too innovative an idea! Refreshingly, Leonardo DiCaprio has only recently proved his skills at skating in and out of the inner recesses of the mind with unbridled felicity in Shutter Island. Once again, he walks into people's heads while they are asleep and walks out with their ideas, leaving them still asleep. But not satisfied with a mere extraction of ideas, he tries to push the limits of science still further. How about planting ideas, he asks himself and ends up burning up his own domestic idyll by using his beautiful wife (Marion Cottilard) as the gullible guinea pig. The experiment backfires and ends up as a tragedy that not only makes him a fugitive, it also tampers with his mind and creates a parallel reality that refuses to let go. So that, when the young Ellen Page joins him on his latest mission, she realises how dangerous it is going to be sharing the dreams of this troubled hero who must fight his own demons before he can play with other people's minds. Inception is not only one of the most original films in recent months, it is absolutely riveting stuff. Like The Matrix, most of the action takes place in the realm of dreams, but they seem completely life-like: the chases, the crashes, the explosions, the extractions, the interrogations, the heartbreak, the longing, the despair. Leonardo is in stellar form, scoring another high after Shutter Island. A special word for cinematographer Wally Pfister who juxtaposes the real and the surreal with such finesse, you never do get confused and always remain aware of the slippery ground you are treading on. Go, get intrigued and push the boundaries of your mind. SUGGESTIONS: AUDIENCE OF EVERY AGE CAN ENGOY THE MOVIE FOUND OF SCIENCE FICTION GENERE