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Movie reviews by Terry Burns

Terry Burns Film critic Terry Burns is the Technology Coordinator for the McNairy County Board of Education, and writes reviews as a hobby. His reviews also appear in The McNairy County News and The Lexington Progress. He says he has been a movie buff since he was a little boy.
Burns is shown receiving the Tennessee Educational Technology Association’s Howard Cisco Outstanding Leadership Award for Technology Innovation for 2009-10.
If you would like to contact Terry, his e-mail address is burns984@bellsouth.net

His movie rating scale:
Five stars plus - as good as it gets
Five stars - don’t miss
Four stars - excellent
Three stars - good
Two stars - fair
One star - poor
No stars - don’t bother

Inception

Inception is Exception to this Year’s Summer Movies
Inception, PG-13, *****Plus, Leonardo DeCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Dileep Rao, Michael Cain. Warner Brothers film. Director Christopher Nolan. Length 148 minutes.
Creative and original entertainment arrived this summer at theaters everywhere on Friday, July 16, 2010. “Inception” is a film with action, intelligence, inspiration, and imagination. With a theme that will have audiences talking about the meaning and purpose of the film, discussions will be taking place on the Internet, coffee shops, and social gathering everywhere.
“Inception” brings the best of both worlds to the audience – action, thought provoking substance, and cleverness.
Christopher Nolan, the director, has created a story that others will have difficulty trying to match in its imagination. The film attracts young and old alike. It is a thinking person’s intellectual nourishment about life, dreams, and purpose.
As the film begins Cobb (Leonardo DeCaprio) washes up on a beach in Japan. From this moment until the final credits, the audience will be glued to the screen and the dialogue. It captures the viewer with a fresh plot that wears like a favorite perfect fitting shirt.
Cobb has an unusual profession. He navigates people’s minds while they dream. Getting inside their heads, he can steal secrets from them.
Do not let the sci-fi scare the reader off. It breaks barriers in artistic and gifted resourcefulness.
The theme mimics today’s world because of its excellent creativity. Allow the film to enter the mind of ingenuity. The leaders of tomorrow must think outside the box. This film demonstrates this throughout its running time.
The jobs in the next few years have not even been thought of yet. This just gives individuals inspiration to become pioneers of new methods of discovering information.
I am not going to reveal a lot of the plot. This is a movie that must be experienced. I am sure it is not for everyone, but if one likes originality, this film may be a well that the reader would like to drink from.
“Inception” is like a dream that never slows down and cannot be stopped until one wakes up or it is over. In dreams choices are made for us, but in the real world, we must make the choices. We should make every attempt to make the right decisions, so that we do not have regrets when we grow older.
Take a leap of faith and live life as it should be lived. Sometimes we have to let go of regrets in order to move forward and find happiness. Never look away. Keep one’s eye on the goal and not the hole.
Saito (Ken Watanabe) is a powerful man that finances Cobb and his team for a mission of danger and intrigue. In order to find his way out of a dangerous predicament which threatens his life and future he takes the offer from Saito?
Here are a few of the characters that help, or hinder Cobb. Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is part of the team. Mal (Marion Cotillard) is Cobb’s wife. Aradne (Ellen Page) is an expert at architecturally designing dreams. Eames (Tom Hardy) is a forger. He is able to shape-shift into other characters. I wish he had more screen time, because he delivered some excellent lines. Cobb found him in Mombassa. Yusuf (Dileep Rao) helps move individuals into a dream within a dream. Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy) is the team’s target.
The movie contains very few CGI’s. The director used sets that moved sideways in order to capture the effects of the dream world. Again, it has enough action for adrenalin seekers and enough philosophy for thought provoking discussion. In other words, it has something for everybody.
I highly recommend this film. I believe it is the best film so far this year considering its story, ingenuity, and sheer entertainment. The audience will not fall asleep during this film.


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