When it comes to Inception, it's incorrect to call me a "hater" because I had such high hopes for the film. I thought it had all of the promise of special effects along with an engaging story, the formula for a great summer film. However, I was unset by something. This attempt at another The Matrix may have been better than the 1999 classic in many people's eyes, but it fell leaps and bounds short.
The story is based on the idea of sending professionals into the dreams of other people. Cobb, the protagonist of the film, who wants to lead a the normal family life he has been deprived of has been called to do one of the most ambitious and complicated dream extractions. Once he achieves this task (as they always achieve the impossible in films like these), Cobb can return to life. As he embraces his kids, there is that ominous top that spins just before the picture blacks out. the significance of the spinning top is that if it continues to spin, your in a dream. If it stops and falls, it is reality. So many people yearn for the answer to the ambiguous conclusion when in reality, the ending is not ambiguous at all. The filmmakers didn't happen to realize that though.
If you learn anything from this film, it is that Cobb spends just as much time in the dreamworld as he does in reality. Being reunited with his kids is a fitting ending to his story. Whether or not that reunion is reality or not, it simply doesn't matter as he is truly happy and to him, the dreamworld is almost like his reality. If he can hold his kids, whether real or imaginative, it does not matter to him. He wouldn't bother looking back at the top. Why should you? Conclusion: Disappointing
Rating: 6.5/10
