Inception [SteelBook] [Blu-ray]

Director: Christopher Nolan

Overview

Visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) writes and directs this psychological sci-fi action film about a thief who possesses the power to enter into the dreams of others. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) doesn't steal things, he steals ideas. By projecting himself deep into the subconscious of his targets, he can glean information that even the best computer hackers can't get to. In the world of corporate espionage, Cobb is the ultimate weapon. But even weapons have their weakness, and when Cobb loses everything, he's forced to embark on one final mission in a desperate quest for redemption. This time, Cobb won't be harvesting an idea, but sowing one. Should he and his team of specialists succeed, they will have discovered a new frontier in the art of psychic espionage. They've planned everything to perfection, and they have all the tools to get the job done. Their mission is complicated, however, by the sudden appearance of a malevolent foe that seems to know exactly what they're up to, and precisely how to stop them.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/07/2013
UPC:	0883929331734
Original Release:	2010
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:28:00
Sales rank:	11,004

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Leonardo DiCaprio	Cobb
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Arthur
Elliot Page	Ariadne(as Ellen Page)
Tom Hardy	Eames
Dileep Rao	Yusuf
Cillian Murphy	Robert Fischer
Tom Berenger	Browning
Marion Cotillard	Mal
Pete Postlewaite	Maurice Fischer
Michael Caine	Miles
Lukas Haas	Nash
Tai-Li Lee	Tadashi
Claire Geare	Phillipa (3 Years Old),Phillipa (5 Years Old),James (3 Years Old)
Magnus Nolan	James (20 Months Old),Flight Attendant
Tohoru Masamune	Japanese Security Guard
Yuji Okumoto	Saito's Attendant
Earl Cameron	Elderly Bald Man
Ryan Hayward	Lawyer
Russ Fega	Cab Driver
Tim Kelleher	Thin Man
Talulah Riley	Blonde
Nicolas Clerc	Bridge Sub Con
Coralie Dedykere	Bridge Sub Con
Virgile Bramly	Bridge Sub Con
Ken Watanabe	Saito
Pete Postlethwaite	Maurice Fischer
Sylvie Laguna	Bridge Con Sub
Jean-Michel Dagory	Bridge Con Sub
Helena Cullinan	Penrose Sub Con
Mark Fleischmann	Penrose Sub Con
Shelley Lang	Penrose Sub Con
Adam Cole	Bar Sub Con
H?l?ne Cardona	French Student
Marc Raducci	Lobby Sub Con
Jack Murray	Bar Sub Con
Kraig Thornber	Bar Sub Con
Angela Nathenson	Bar Sub Con
Natasha Beaumont	Bar Sub Con
Carl Gilliard	Lobby Sub Con
Jill Maddrell	Lobby Sub Con
Alex Lombard	Lobby Sub Con
Nicole Pulliam	Lobby Sub Con
Peter Basham	Fischer's Jet Captain
Michael Gaston	Immigration Officer
Felix Scott	Businessman
Andrew Pleavin	Businessman
Lisa Reynolds	Private Nurse
Jason Tendell	Fischer's Driver
Jack Gilroy	Old Cobb
Shannon Welles	Old Mal
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan	Screenwriter,Producer
Chris Brigham	Executive Producer
Thomas Tull	Executive Producer
Kanjiro Sakura	Producer
Yoshikuni Taki	Producer
Emma Thomas	Producer
John Papsidera	Casting
Ed Novick	Sound Mixer
Richard King	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Directors have been trying to replicate the world of dreams since the beginning of cinema, and acknowledged masters like Buñuel and David Lynch became renowned for their ability to visually articulate the subconscious mind. With his ingeniously inventive psychological thriller Inception, Christopher Nolan stakes his claim on this ambitious cinematic territory. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, a thief who, with the help of his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), steals information from victims' dreams while they sleep. After a rare failure on his most recent corporate espionage job, their intended mark, Saito (Ken Watanabe), makes Dom an offer he can't refuse. Turns out our main character has legal problems stemming from his wife's death that prevent Dom from returning to the United States to see his children. The rich and powerful Saito offers to wipe away those troubles if Dom will, instead of stealing an idea from a particular business competitor, put an idea into the man's mind. Most believe this task, known as "inception," isn't possible, but Dom knows from personal history that he can do it. Aside from putting together the right team to get the job done, Dom's biggest obstacle is his deceased wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard). More precisely, it's his memories of her, because when he goes into people's dreams he brings his own subconscious with him, and Dom's projections of Mal constantly undermine his efforts. One of the most striking aspects of Inception is that it looks like a big-budget special-effects spectacle, but it sounds like a talky art film -- it's an ambitious combination of something like Dreamscape and Last Year at Marienbad, but with a somber tone. Revealing much more about the plot would be unkind because learning Nolan's rules for traveling through other people's subconscious is most of the fun. For a movie so dependent on exposition -- traditionally the most boring element of any story -- Inception skillfully (though not always gracefully) makes it work. Nolan keeps us off-balance with both the visuals and the storytelling so that we will listen closely when the characters explain various intricacies -- like how to force themselves awake out of a dream within a dream within a dream. Half the reason a director casts a powerful figure like DiCaprio is to help the viewer through all the information. Sure, DiCaprio has the chops to play a haunted man with magnetic vulnerability -- much as he did in Shutter Island -- and Inception is another chance to appreciate why he's on the short list of genuine movie stars. But his engaging presence also helps sell the movie's insanely intricate plot developments; since Cobb always seems like he knows exactly what's going on, we trust that it all makes sense. And what exactly makes sense is an unavoidable question throughout Inception. Nowhere do we suspend disbelief as readily, willingly, and automatically as when we dream, but Inception comes uncannily close to grabbing us just as authoritatively. Because of that, it makes complete and total sense while it's playing, but upon reflection the gaping logical holes are too numerous to list here. Logic isn't what matters most in Inception, though. For all the detailed talk about mazes and architecture and chemistry and neuroscience, the movie is most concerned not with the brain but with the heart. Like The Prestige, Nolan gives viewers an ending that is open-ended enough that you could read the film in various ways, and how you react to the movie will tell you more about yourself than it will about Nolan. But that's true of dreams as well, because interpretations of dreams mean far more than experiencing them. Nolan has given us a dream we can share -- a puzzle to dissect, debate, and ponder -- and odds are strong that the conversations Inception inspires will end up being just as interesting as the movie itself.