Creative and inventive are apt words to describe Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a movie that is all about dreams.

In Nolan’s latest film, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, an extractor who is hired by corporations to enter the dreams of their competition to extract their ideas within their dreams that they keep hidden in the sub-conscious.

As the movie opens we are in one such extraction of Saito (Ken Watanabe). An extraction that doesn’t go according to plan. Saito ends up hiring Cobb and his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to not extract an idea but to plant one, an inception, into the mind of a rival (Cillian Murphy) that will be beneficial to Saito.

Cobb ends up enlisting an architect, Ariadne (Ellen Page) who designs the dreams that the dreamer enters. All of this is complicated by vision’s that Cobb has of his late wife, Mal (Marion Cottillard) who seems to be sabotaging the missions that Cobb and his team do.

To reveal more will probably spoil the movie so I will stop the plot synopsis here.

Going into this movie, I thought that Inception would be just as confusing as Nolan’s Memento but surprisingly, I understood what was going on.

The only confusion I had was keeping track of the dream states that the characters were in.

Nolan’s screenplay is incredibly imaginative and the way he imagines what dreams is all about is creative especially the scene where Ariadne is being trained by Cobb to be an architect and she creates a world where it can fold in on itself.

DiCaprio, with his piercing blue eyes, is great as Cobb. You can tell he is good at his job but also is haunted by it. Page is also good as his protege, who at first is naive and innocent about the job she undertakes but she catches on fast and eventually becomes the one person that Cobb can depend on and even confide in.

Gordon-Levitt is also great as Arthur and has some really kick-ass fight scenes all done in a dapper suit. The visuals of that fight is just amazing.

Cotillard is quite impressive in this film where she can alternate from being the sweet wife to be quite the menancing and chilling villain.

The plot is definitely complex and can be hard to follow if you aren’t paying close attention but I think that is one of the things I enjoyed about this film – a movie that challenges you to think -which is often lacking in film these days.