Inception

Certificate: 12A

Running Time: 148 minutes

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an expert at inception; the ability to lure people into a dream-like state in order to uncover their deepest secrets. As he struggles to overcome his personal life, he must pull off his biggest job to date in order to change his life. He assembles his finest team, but even the best-planned ideas can go wrong. Directed by the amazing Christopher Nolan (known for both Batman films), and also starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Ken Watanabe. The special effects were out of this world, and the plot was unique, inspiring and slotted together perfectly. I’m very impressed. 

Rating: *****

Shutter Island

Certificate: 15

Running Time: 138 minutes

Director: Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up (again!) to create this psychological thriller set in 1954. DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshall investigating the disappearance of a patient in a psychiatric unit on a isolated island. The whole plot takes a very sinister approach, and there is more than what meets the eye. However, it was slightly predictable and slightly confusing throughout. Average in all sense of the word. 

Rating: ***