This is the most promising movie of 2010. You simply can't go wrong with Christopher Nolan. The director and writer of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight just simply takes our breath away and does amazing movies with the talent he has. He has joined a legion of directors who have taken movie-making to a new level. Inception is the inception of that step. So why is it that Inception can look so promising while current movies like Sex & The City 2, Eclipse and The Back-Up Plan all failed in their trailers? I say this many times before, which is effort. Directors and screen writers who we have never heard of before are taking on movies that are popular, famous and of dying genres. Christopher Nolan loves movie making so he does it with passion because he wants to tell a story and we all want to listen. Unfortunately, some prefer to see shirtless werewolves, weird vampires and an emo girl, 4 best friends who we rather see on the T.V. screen and Jennifer Lopez in a rom-com. Okay, so maybe I am harsh about those movies but it's because Inception is so much better when you compare it with these movies.
I mean, why isn't anyone aware of the number of bad movies we have? 
All we do is keep taking money out of our wallets to watch these movies that we all know are gonna disappoint us. 
We need to know now that bad movies are not needed and we need to fight for our rights to get the good movies we want like Inception. 
There are simply no excuses to make a bad movie if you only put in a half effort work. So let's see what is Inception about. It's about a man who can enter people's minds and steal their ideas. Because of this, he is a fugitive. But he has to complete one last job and he will be able to be a normal person like everyone else. He has to plant an idea into a mind but someone seems to be watching them. 
Nolan was very secretive of this movie when he released the 30 seconds trailer. Just like Cloverfield, we wanted more. So he released a second trailer that had Leonardo Di Caprio explaining our world in the near future. There are some cool moments and then a little story here and there with different perceptions of the movie, trailer and story. The third trailer was released a few months later and that one really told the story and we all could understand the main story. Christopher didn't need to tell us the story straight away with narrations or words on the screen other than the tag line and credits. He let the characters and sequences to the talking and we could understand it perfectly clear. Like Wall-E. I don't remember Inglourious Basterds or Up In The Air talk when I watched Wall-E but just the movements of Wall-E and the background already told us where we are and what we're doing. It may not be as clear as talking but it's still clear. Imagine if one of those 5 movies above had very little dialogue. We are most likely going to get shirtless guys, laughing girls, dance moves, plain action choreography and fumbling-bumbling actions. Those are for the entertaining part but every movies need the basic root which is story and characters. 
If that fails, not even good acting can save it from failure. You can say "Great acting by Laurence Fishburne in Predators but the script wasn't as good as Predator. The actors here are well-known or basic solid actors who won't give bad performances. They have all either been nominated, won or involved in movies that received attention from the Golden Globes or the Oscars. Leonardo Di Caprio (nominated for Oscar), Ken Watanabe (nominated for Oscar), Marion Cotillard (won Oscar), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (nominated for Golden Globe), Cillian Murphy (involved in The Dark Knight), Ellen Page (nominated for Oscar), Michael Caine (won Oscar)and 2 other actors Tom Hardy and Tom Berenger. Other than the story, the actors are also a big spectacle to watch because who doesn't like a cast that features great actors. When the case is right, they can act well and the director doesn't need to give so many directions because there actors adapt well and can understand the vision of the director. No offense to the actors below but imagine if Eddie Murphy, any of the Jonas brothers, Paris Hilton, anyone from any horror remake, any Disney actor or actress with stone acting were cast in this movie. No matter whether there's a twist in the story, the actors won't be able to portray what the director wants unless Christopher Nolan keeps shooting the same scene for numerous times.(To be continued...)
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