Inception

The plot is very creative and imaginative. There aren’t many commercial blockbusters, which all tend to be sci-fi action movies like Inception, that have creative and imaginative plots. Most of them are _, that have a conventional ending battle. The ending battle in these films are the most basic out of the entire movie. It’s just punching, with occasional stabbing and running. It’s not set in a very cool place, even though prior fights in the film are, and it doesn’t use any interesting camera techniques or fighting styles to enhance the action. Not in Inception, the film actually progresses it’s action as it goes on. We get a lot of imaginative action scenes like the Hallway Fight Scene and the Dream Car Chase.

This film isn’t weighed down by having to be part of a film franchise, it can just be about these characters and can just standalone and will live in film history as the benchmark film for films about going into people’s dreams. No filmmaker for decades to come will attempt to make a film that tries to be the definitive “going into people’s dream” film because of how well Inception used it’s concept. Yes, their had been films like The Cell (2000) which had a plot about going into people’s minds, but wasn’t considered “mind-bending” enough by critics and audiences to hold the mantle of being the benchmark going into people’s minds/dreams. Inception makes full use of its “going into people's dream” story. The film establishes the dreamworld rules so well where there are no major plot holes for minor gripes to be held. Many stories that have creative and imaginative stories like this have major issues of having plot holes that contradict so much of the film’s worlds rules and mythology. While this doesn’t necessarily make the film bad it does prevent some of them from standing as the definitive version of that story forever. Not Inception. The worldbuilding doesn’t have any significant plot confusions. The film never has the audience questioning what is the dream world and the real world unless it wants them to with the opening scene.

The story keeps building intrigue and excitement as it goes on. We learn more about Cobb’s (DiCaprio) past with his late wife that makes his character more stressed during the heist and provides an interesting emotional story and mystery for the characters and the audience.