With such a dull summer box office line-up this year, Hollywood’s most lucrative time of year rides on the shoulder’s of genius filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Sci-fi thriller, Inception. Filmed in Six countries and on four continents for $160 million, this sweeping epic taunts your very definition of reality and perception while you experience moments of cinematic intensity that is utterly unprecedented.

Leonardo DiCaprio is Dom Cobb, a former researcher in the field that he now is the master of: dream invasion. He and his team of  “extractors” invade the sub consciences of business executives through their dreams, on behalf of rivaling corporations, in order to obtain business secrets and plans. One such executive is Saito (Ken Watanabe) a Japanese business executive who hires Cobb to plant in the mind of a rival executive’s son the idea to break apart their corporation. The act is called Inception, and it is both astronomically difficult and entirely dangerous.

From beginning to end you are plummeting through a cavalcade of mind-bending sequences, from a city being flipped upside down to a hotel being rotated by a shifting point of gravity: the scene of which the most astonishing and breath taking fight sequence in the past decade takes place. The movie is completely involving, requiring the attention of the audience through out, but don’t worry, you’re happy to give it. The visual effects are wholly realistic, dwarfing the feat accomplished by Avatar just last year. But the most comprehensive aspect of this monumental film is the screenplay. The length of the movie is smart, detailed, and fresh, exposing multiple levels of thought on the dynamics of dreaming and the danger of taking your sub conscience with you.

Inception is simply a colossal accomplishment of a film from start to finish. To be truthful (and cliche), it is an instant classic, a groundbreaking sci-fi thriller epic, and the must see film of the year.

Rating: 4 out of 4 stars