A wild dream adventure from Christopher Nolan

Rating: 8/10 (22 July 2017)

Christopher Nolan headed to the dream world for his next project after the box office smash success of The Dark Knight. Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) is a thief of ideas using an advanced technology to journey into the minds of wealthy individuals while they dream. With his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), they try to steal business secrets from Saito (Ken Watanabe), but another thief gives them up. Cobb has trouble building dream worlds because the memory of his dead wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) still haunts him. Saito offers him a chance to return to the United States if he pulls off a complicated job called inception, planting an idea in someone's mind. He heads to Paris where his father Miles (Michael Caine) helps him recruit a new student Ariadne (Ellen Page) to help him build dreams. In a spectacular sequence, Ariadne explores the physics of the dream world but is attacked by Mal as a part of Cobb's self-conscious. The dream explorers need a totem, an object that only they know so that they can assure themselves that they are in reality and not in someone else's dream.
Cobb recruits Eames (Tom Hardy) to help him forge identities. Cobb is pursued by another corporation known as Cobol that nearly captures him until Saito helps him escape. Eames introduces Cobb and Saito to Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a chemist who has mixed a powerful sedative that can keep people in dreaming sleep for extended periods of time. The job requires Cobb and his group to trick Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) to break up his company and prevent it from being a competitor to Saito. They develop the plan like a heist explaining how they'll drop down into three levels of dreams causing a massive difference in time and moving into the depths of the subconscious. Saito buys the airline the Robert will take and the plan is set though Ariadne worries about Cobb's ability to keep it together in the dream world.
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