Inception reviews soar in!

I'll be spending the next few days pouring over all of the recently released reviews for the movie Inception, and hopefully getting an idea of exactly how good the movie is. For now, I'm left with the general consensus, which is currently that the movie is completely amazing. I had my suspicions that this film wouldn't be a huge mistake for Nolan, but I never had confirmation of that until now. The reviews are praising the film as Nolan's best, and that's no easy accomplishments.

The trades are widely praising the film for its originality, which is something that most films out this summer lack. Justin Chang from Variety says of the film "If movies are shared dreams, then Christopher Nolan is surely one of Hollywood's most inventive dreamers, given the evidence of his commandingly clever Inception. Applying a vivid sense of procedural detail to a fiendishly intricate yarn set in the labyrinth of the subconscious, the writer-director has devised a heist thriller for surrealists, a Jungian's Rififi, that challenges viewers to sift through multiple layers of (un)reality. As such, it's a conceptual tour de force unlikely to rank with Batman at the B.O., though post-Dark Knight anticipation and Leonardo DiCaprio should still position it as one of the summer's hottest, classiest tickets."

For most films in their first batch of reviews, there are at least a few detractors in the mix. That is not the case for Inception. This film is being praised universally. Devin Faraci of CHUD confirms this, saying "Inception is a masterpiece. Making a huge film with big ambitions, Christopher Nolan never missteps and manages to create a movie that, at times, feels like a miracle. And sometimes it doesn't even feel like a movie; while presented in woefully retro 2D, Inception creates a complete sense of immersion in another world. The screen before you is just another layer of the dream. I don't even know what's the most remarkable aspect of Inception. It's huge-budget filmmaking harnessed to tell a personal story that's smart and uncompromising. That's certainly remarkable in this age of Hollywood."