Inception was filmed amazingly.
If Christopher Nolan doesn’t get Oscar nominations for his performance as a writer and/or as a director, we will be shocked.
The mere size of some of the effects is breathtaking.
However, Nolan keeps it down to earth with a very good cast and great storyline, as a film of this size has the potential of becoming a CGI-driven mess.
Nolan manages to avoid this completely, creating an almost perfect story which draws you in, and really leaves you thinking about the characters and the events which just transpired on-screen.
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable.
Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved.
Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.
One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception.
Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one.
If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.
But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move.
An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.
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Goofs
- Continuity: When the cab gets hit the first time the front grille with the Hyundai logo gets smashed in and disappears. In the second scene the grille reappears and the car has less damage than the scene before. And in the warehouse scene the grille disappears one final time.
- Continuity: When the white van emerges from the warehouse, the passenger side mirror strikes the warehouse door. However, in the next shot of van’s exterior the passenger side mirror is fully extended. In subsequent shots the mirror is flipped back once more.
- Continuity: In the scene with the falling van you see Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) asleep without the headphones originally placed on his head. Before the van falls in the water they show Arthur again wearing the headphones.
- Continuity: One car explosion shown twice. First is the shot of the car exploding in a fireball, filling the frame. Minutes later the same car is shown exploding in the same fireball, but as part of a bigger shot from further away, in the bottom half of the frame.
- Continuity: When Cobb and Ariadne are sitting at a café, her hand movements from shot to shot are out of sync, as she adjusts her hair or picks up her coffee cup.
- Continuity: In the scene where Eames is chasing down the Hummer with skiers trailing behind it, the number of skiers on the ropes alternates between five and six in different shots.
- Continuity: When Arthur collects Cobb in Tokyo, they leave the hotel room and go to the roof for the helicopter – it is clearly at night. When they are on the roof, it is already daylight.
- Errors in geography: When the helicopter lands after picking up Cobb and Arthur, it is still in Japan. The backdrop where Saito tempts Cobb though, is the Terminal Building at Farnborough Airfield, England, UK.
- Continuity: When Cobb first meets Michael Caine’s character, Leonardo DiCaprio has a hair on his right shoulder which appears and reappears as the camera cuts.
- Continuity: In the scene where Saito enters the helicopter and informs Cobb about the inception plan. In one shot, there is hard rain hitting the window in the helicopter. However, in a subsequent shot, there is no rain outside.
- Revealing mistakes: Early in the movie, when Saito is asking Cobb and Arthur to attempt the inception, Cobb and Arthur are standing outside Saito’s helicopter speaking to Saito. The rotor blades are spinning and the engine is running but there is no air moved over the two characters; their hair and clothes remain unmoved. (In the wider angle which follows, with the helicopter and the actors in the same shot, the wind is affecting them.)
- Continuity: In the scenes where Arthur and Ariadne are looking at the hotel rooms in the second layer of dreams, Ariadne’s bun keeps moving back and forth on her head. (In one scene, it is on top of her head, in the next, it is near the back, then moves up again.)
- Continuity: When Cobb and Robert are in the hotel bathroom (2nd level) Cobb kills two men. The very next scene that shows Cobb and Robert in the bathroom the dead men’s bodies have disappeared.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Fischer’s cab is being hijacked, numerous production markings are visible on the street.
- Continuity: In the scene where Saito is defending Fischer, the ventilation cover is open after they enter through it, but closed when Saito is sitting next to it. The cover is open again when Saito throws the grenade into the ventilation shaft.
- Continuity: In the first scene, when the guard says “he had only these”, and places Cobb’s gun and totem on the table, the totem is tilted with the longer end up and it is stable enough not to fall down. When Cobb is brought in, the totem is lying stable, with its long end down and short end up.
- Errors in geography: When the characters are riding the JR Shinkansen (bullet train), Cobb says that he needs to get off in Kyoto. In the next scene, there is an aerial view of Tokyo, not Kyoto. The red-colored Tokyo Tower can be seeing in that scene and also in the rooftop scene the following morning where they board the helicopter.
- Revealing mistakes: At the beginning and end of the film when Cobb meets Saito in limbo, the full-eye contacts to make Leonardo DiCaprio’s and ‘Ken Watanabe’’s eyes look glossy and bloodshot are visible in the close-up shots.
- Continuity: During the scene where Ariadne and Cobb are sitting at a café a man in a yellow jacket passes by behind Ariadne. The camera then switches to Cobb. When it switches back to Ariadne you can see that the man in the background passes here once again,
- Factual errors: At one point in the third dream, Saito is seen throwing a frag grenade down a vent and it explodes into fire. Frag grenades do not do that, they explode into fragments; incendiary grenades explode into fire, and they look quite different from frag grenades.
- Revealing mistakes: When the team busts into room 491 in the hotel, the door opens fractionally before Cobb’s foot hits it in the POV shot.
- Continuity: In the warehouse scene between Cobb and Ariadne, a Nikon DSLR camera is behind him on a desk. It disappears and reappears between shots.
- Plot holes: It is established that the sensation of falling triggers the sleeper to wake up (i.e. tripping the chair wakes the sleeper before hitting the ground). However, neither the van rolling over nor the van dropping from the bridge (nor the sensation of zero gravity in dream level 2) wakes the sleepers.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Saito is the CEO of a large competitor to Fischer’s corporation, however Fischer does not appear to recognize or acknowledge Saito both in his dream or on the plane.
- Plot holes: While the van is falling, it’s said that Arthur only have a couple of minutes to synchronize the kick; however, this time wouldn’t enough to realize all the actions performed by Arthur (tie the dreamers together, beat the guards, call the elevator, cut the cables, put the bombs and explode them).
- Continuity: When Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is tying up the team in the hotel scene, you see that Eames’ (Tom Hardy) arms are tightly bound to his sides by the cord. When Arthur is pushing them down the corridors, Eames’ arms are now floating freely. Then, when we see the view looking down into the elevator, the unconscious man’s arms are once again bound tightly.