Inception - Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tom Hardy

* Nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture
* Won  Oscar for Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Sound,  Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, Best Achievement in Visual Effects in 2010
Real Teen Award
-Best Movie Premiered in 2010
-The North Star Award

The Gist

Inception
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Dreams are a delicate and dangerous place in everyone’s mind.  When you are sleeping they contain your most precious secrets and they are not always safe.  All his life Cobb has only dreamed of one thing and that was to be able to return to his kids whom he has been banded from seeing. He has had to work all his life to just get a slight chance at seeing them again.  He is an extractor.  An extractor is someone who goes into other people’s dreams and finds out all of there secrets with a few restrictions.  They can’t attract attention to themselves or the subconscious of the dreamer will attack the extractor forcing them to wake up.  The only other way to get out of someone else’s dream is to kill yourself.  Cobb is the best extractor in the business and had recently been offered a job that could potently bring him back to his children, but this job is extremely difficult.  He must plant an idea in someone’s mind by going extremely deep into their subconscious and going a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream also known as inception.  All of his colleagues believe that inception is impossible but he assures that them that it is possible, so his team agrees to the job.  Cobb hires the best team: a new architect (Ellen Page) and people that will reassure that he will be able to see his children again.  When they enter the dreamers mind they soon discover that this assignment isn’t as simple as they thought because as they go deeper Cobb’s past is revealed and may jeopardize the operation as his feelings become more important than the task at hand. 


What We Think

Reviewed by The North Star

Run Time: 142 Minutes

Rating: PG-13

I really, really liked this movie!  Please try to ignore the strange gist above this movie is extremely hard to sum up.  Today’s movies if you haven’t noticed have no original stories what-so-ever and the special effects are way over done.  This movie had a very new concept that I had never heard of before and the special effects were really well done!  The only bad thing about this movie was that you couldn’t blink or you would miss something.  It was extremely complicated and even though I understood everything I did have to pay extreme attention to understand what was happening and warning, the first 15 minutes of the movie you have to completely go with the flow and accept the fact that you will be confused.  After that they explain what was happening and it all makes sense.  Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page were simply fantastic in this movie.  I haven’t seen many movies with Leonardo DiCaprio and in this one I thought he was brilliant and by far the best part of this movie (besides the special effects).  I felt bad for his character at points and the same thing with Ellen Page.  The ending to this movie was really epic and if you have to go to the bathroom (which you mostly likely will have to do) whatever you do DON’T LEAVE!!!!!!  This is an amazing ending and should not be missed so hold it in for a few minutes you will not be disappointed.  This movie also had a lot of humor between the two side-kick like characters and had me laughing at all the parts that were meant to be laughed at.  All in all, this movie is a MUST-SEE and my review doesn’t really do it justice but because it was so confusing I have to give it an A.

Real Teen Rating~ A+: If you haven’t seen this movie you are a deprived soul!!!


Reviewed by Dream Catcher

Dreams. What’s not to love? I was really excited to see this movie. I saw the previews but still had absolutely no idea what it was about. Except I knew it had something to do with going into people’s dreams. Epic. So the North Star went to see it before I did. She told me it was amazing, and I was ready to believe her, but then I heard it was a newer, flashier, not-as-good-version of the Matrix. So I thought that the movie could go either way. It could be amazing. Or it could be like a rip-off of the Matrix (which would be really disappointing, because I love that movie). Thankfully, I would consider it to be in the first category. Amazing. I’ll admit, it did have its similarities to the Matrix, but it was different, and completely mind-blowing. I thought the plot and the whole idea of inception was crazy and completely different. It kept me thinking about the movie even after it was over. On the walk from the theater to the car, the drive home, before bed. Yeah. That’s how you know it’s a good movie: it makes you think. I agree that the ending was epic. It totally blew my mind. And the whole dream within a dream thing? Sometimes I couldn’t keep track! But in a good way. Before I went into the movie this couple came up to me, and they looked really aggravated. They were complete stranger. “Are you going to see Inception?” the lady asked me. Yes. Yes I was. “Well I wouldn’t if I were you, it’s horrible, I couldn’t follow anything! We actually didn’t even stay for the whole thing! We just left, like, right in the middle.”

Don’t do what these people did. They just walked out of the theater because – at the time – they didn’t exactly understand what was happening at the time. I didn’t understand everything that was happening at every time during the movie. But I waited to the end. Then I understood. Same with my entire family, and the North Star. So maybe this couple had the attention span of a small rodent and wouldn’t have understood the movie at the end anyways. But if she had stayed, at least she would have tried to understand. Maybe they could’veunderstood.  In any case, it doesn’t hurt to try. The ending is completely worth it. Moving on, I thought the acting was great too. Leonardo DiCaprio was convincing in his role as Cobb. His love for his kids, and his late wife, Mal, seemed so real. Ellen Page was also great at her part as the team’s architect. She made her character very real, and was just plain good at her part. And, I’m not sure exactly why, I always love the straight-faced, don’t-joke-around characters in movies, and feel like I have to give credit where it is due. Joseph Gordon-Levitt played, Arthur, a no-emotion, let’s-get-right-down-to-business guy.  He was a great character, and I felt like Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a good job as Arthur. The three actors I mentioned were only a few from the movie (obviously) but they weren’t the only ones whose acting was fantastic. I can honestly say that I thought that everyone’s acting in this movie, was really convincing, and really good.  And that’s pretty amazing. Last, but certainly not least: special effects. They were incredible. Like the North Star says, movies now tend to be all special effects, no plot. Thank goodness that was not the case. Though the special effects in this movie were beautifully horrifying and real, they didn’t take over the movie. So this movie was great. That’s all there is to it. Though it was on the longer side (over two hours) I didn’t really notice. But I’m like that with movies, and don’t mind a long one upon occasion. I’m not sure what they could have cut out though, so in my opinion, the length wasn’t a problem. The only complaint I have is that sometimes – not frequently though – I couldn’t hear or understand what some of the characters were saying. But the lines that I missed due to quiet or incoherent speech weren’t vital to the movie overall, so I didn’t really mind. All in all, it was a great movie. One that I would definitely see again and would recommend to everyone.

Real Teen Rating~ A +: If you have not seen this movie you are a deprived soul!!!