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.
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Character
Contemporary, meticulous, grave and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
161 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
Where do you stand?
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“Is this Christopher Nolan's best work?”
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“Does the ending land?”
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“Is it style over substance?”
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Reviews
We read them all: the case for is theo.thrills's, the case against is mara_k's. Marked below.
- theo.thrillsThe case forThe Genre Devotee★★★★★
A heist inside a heist inside a heist, and the rules hold. The hallway fight is the best thing Nolan has staged.
- mara_kThe case againstThe Provocateur★★★
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.
From the critics
The opening lines, as each paper serves them; the review is on their site. Not part of Tastebuds's numbers.
- The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 2010This Time the Dream’s on Me
In Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” a specialist in corporate mental espionage and his co-workers penetrate the minds of their slumbering targets.
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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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