Film review: Leonardo DiCaprio teams up with The Dark Knight's Christopher Nolan to produce the sure-fire smash hit of the summer, Inception
‘From the director of The Dark Knight’ trumpet the adverts – and it’s truly writer/director Christopher Nolan’s vision, rather than Leonardo DiCaprio, that is the star of this action sci-fi. Cobb (DiCaprio, pictured) is an expert in ‘extraction’, breaking and entering into other people’s dreams and stealing their secrets. It’s a gift that’s cost him his family and made him a fugitive.
Then he’s offered one last shot at redemption by pulling off an ‘inception’ – planting an idea into someone’s unconscious – aided by his pals Ellen ‘Juno’ Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and, of course, Sir Michael Caine. ‘Spectacular’ and ‘wow’ are the words that repeatedly spring to mind as you attempt to navigate the Memento-like maze of Nolan’s latest achingly intelligent blockbuster.
