Roger Ebert Gives 'Inception' Four Stars
No matter how many glowing reviews a new film receives, I’m never convinced of its quality (or lack thereof) until I read what Roger Ebert has to say about it. This was the case with Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a flick I’ve been giddy about for quite some time, and Ebert’s word is out there.
The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. “Inception” does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in “Memento:” How does a man with short-term memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there’s a hole in “Inception” too, but I can’t find it. Christopher Nolan reinvented “Batman.” This time he isn’t reinventing anything. Yet few directors will attempt to recycle “Inception.” I think when Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.
Nolan is one of my favorite filmmakers, and it seems he concocted the perfect formula this time around: the mind-bending nature of Memento, mixed with the tone and action of The Dark Knight. I’ll be seeing Inception within the next couple of weeks, and I can now say that I’ll probably come home from it waiting for the next Batman movie with even higher expectations than before.
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