Inception

Inception is smart, rare, and very entertaining. I honestly don't think it'll be easy to top something like this masterpiece. The visual effects and cinematography are very well-done and the score itself is beautiful too. Acting was really good and it's completely character driven. I watch this every time it's on t.v., and I could probably watch it every second of the day and my love for it would still not die. Easily my all-time favorite movie.

Superiorly constructed; smart exposition escalates a complex plot, retaining clarity while managing to embed ambiguous elements. They provide, yes, an inception of the suspicion of an unreliable world that proves triumphantly pertinent to the poignant emotional core of the film and a superb thematic fit with the sci-fi world of the ontological mindfuck. Fascinating concepts abound (subconscious security/time dilation/limbo), leaving no room for clearly defined rules. Most entertaining film ever?

Inception is not a lot of things. It's not a psychological examination into the subconscious nor is it a complex character study. So don't expect it to be one. Instead, the film aspires to be a mindbending adventure heist film set in the realms of dreams and in this regard, the film is flawless. With jawdropping and visceral sequences, it not only engages the intellect but also the emotions as it deals with guilt and loss and being haunted by your past.

There's only one problem: I didn't give a f*ck about Cobb's wife, Cobb's children, and Cobb's feeling of guilt. Not a bit. Unfortunately, almost the whole movie was about that.

The more I think about this movie, the more it pisses me off. I guess having a dozen shitty subplots, terrible dialogue and a gross misuse of concept lead to something being "movie of the year." And to think that people are actually claiming that it challenges the audience's intelligence. Well, I didn't feel challenged, I felt insulted. But, hey, it's like #4 on IMDB so I clearly don't know shit, right?