Inception is an ambitious and brilliant film. But it starts badly. A very stiff and cliched setup motivates our hero to “do just one last job”. Please. Thankfully the final 2/3 is so spectacular and so well executed it completely erases your memory of the first 1/3. The director Christopher Nolan is ridiculously ambitious. A dream within a dream would have been something. But like nesting dolls he keeps packing one timeline inside another and pulls it off with tremendous visual style.
