Summer movies have been a huge disappointment so far.  Not merely in quality, but also in selection.  I haven’t been eager to see any films outside of the annual Pixar voyage demanded every summer.  Not so with “Inception” – a thrilling, psychological, science fiction, heist flick blend that had me glued from the first frame.

The story is this – a team of mental ninja’s (led by Leonardo DiCaprio) are commissioned to go into the minds of others and extract information.  In addition to extraction is inception, a nigh impossible technique where said team of ninja’s go in and implant ideas into the mind’s of others.  I don’t want to say more – the less known the better.

Let’s talk the good, firstly being the structure of the story.  If you are going to introduce new rules of reality, make sure the audience gets it, and we get it.  I have never seen a film like this before, but Nolan and company do an excellent job of setting up the parameters, the rules, and show us how they work in the first hour or so.  The second half or more of the film is the team of mental con artists playing by the rules.  In terms of genre I have a positive bias towards heist flicks, especially the “one last job” noir style tragi-drama.  “Inception” is a great heist flick.