Inception

UK Release Date: 16th July 2010

A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

Director: Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight)

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine

Inception needs the audience's utmost attention in order to fully grasp its complexity and magnificence. To be polite, it's a mind-fuck, one that's hard to explain on paper, but an absolute joy to watch. DiCaprio and his newly assembled team must enter a CEO's dreams in order to extraxct information for a neighbouring competitor. Christopher Nolan, with his monumental ideas, will make your brain hurt, but revel in Inception's animosity. It'll take at least a second or maybe even a third viewing to understand and totally appreciate everything that's going on. Every shot is beautiful and meticulously thought out, the acting is incredible; everyone has their moment of glory, but DiCaprio hits peaks we knew he could, and the idea of entering 'a dream within a dream', and its minute details, is an idea that would be relished if it were explored more, but one that should be left alone so as not to ruin Inception's uniqueness.

5/5