The Final Take with Parker Mott

Rating: PG – Violence, Language May Offend, Not Recommended for Young Children
Run Time: 165 minutes

Batman returns after 8 years in the cave in "The Dark Knight Rises".

Before this review, I want to express my deepest condolences to those harmed by the tragic events that occurred at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado. My heart goes out to the families, friends, and victims of this horrid crime. Movie theatres should be for our joy and entertainment, and that this promise has been fatally broken is sad and unforgivable. (continue reading…)

3.5 Stars out of 4
(146 minutes)

Dreaming in Inception.

It took director Christopher Nolan (Insomnia, Memento) a lengthy ten years to write his prodigious new mind-blender Inception. En route to its creation, Leonardo DiCaprio would help edit elements that needed tweaking and emotions that needed gratifying. As a finished project, Inception is an astutely constructed game of chess, which controls its ideas fastidiously and corners the audience into a check mate. The 148 minutes is a spiraling labyrinth, where Nolan’s concepts seem to rectify at the rate of his drama. Inception is a film you want to see at least twice. Not because it can be consumed on pure exhilarating levels, but because it acts like a dream that you never really quite understand the first time. When the film ends, it’s like you have woken up and it’s not until you endure a second view that the film will only seem just strange. (continue reading…)

3.5 Stars out of 4
(113 minutes)

Remembering in Memento.

It took me at least two viewings to ‘get’ Christopher Nolan’s Memento. When I say “get it”, I mean I understand it as much as I do quantum physics. Well, not that bad, but Memento really requires an ignited brain and zero bathroom breaks. Nolan penetrates the mind but does not indulge in the whodunit mystery or Hitchcockian drama. Nolan finds his own genre here, one distorted fully by time. (continue reading…)