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Action, Science Fiction, Adventure 148 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes86%Metacritic74IMDb
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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Meticulous, epic, relentless and plot-driven.
We read them all: the case for is theo.thrills's, the case against is mara_k's. Marked below.
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.
A heist inside a heist inside a heist, and the rules hold. The hallway fight is the best thing Nolan has staged.
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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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161 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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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