Your mind is the scene of the crime.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
ActionScience FictionAdventuremissiondreamskidnappingspyallegoryintellectualmanipulationheistmemorydream worldsubconsciousincredulous
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Character
Contemporary, earnest, meticulous and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
Who loves it, who doesn't
156 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
Reviews
- mara_kThe Empath★★★
A heist film that keeps explaining its own rules and then breaks them anyway. Technically dazzling, emotionally beige. The top spinning at the end is a question the film never earned the right to ask.
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioDom Cobb
- Joseph Gordon-LevittArthur
- Ken WatanabeSaito
- Tom HardyEames
- Elliot PageAriadne
- Dileep RaoYusuf
- Cillian MurphyRobert Fischer, Jr.
- Tom BerengerPeter Browning
- Marion CotillardMal Cobb
- Pete PostlethwaiteMaurice Fischer
Crew
- Christopher NolanDirector
- Christopher NolanWriter
- Wally PfisterDirector of Photography
- Hans ZimmerOriginal Music Composer
- Lee SmithEditor
- Christopher NolanProducer
- Emma ThomasProducer
- Kanjiro SakuraProducer
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Pairings
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