Inception (2010) was a mind bending action movie that had the audience on the edge every second. Personally, I was unaware the movie exited until quarantine struck. I was looking to watch a movie on Netflix and when I read the description of Inception, I was hooked. I wanted another movie, but unfortunately there isn’t one…yet.
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I will try to explain it the best I can for those of you who haven’t seen it, but I had to watch the movie twice to fully understand it myself. Dom (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is an expert thief known for his ability to extract. In the movie, the term extracting is used when they go into someone’s mind during a vulnerable dream state and extract secrets. Because of his unique ability to do this, he is an international fugitive, so he has lost everyone he has ever loved except for his team. Similar to other movies, Dom is offered one last job. Instead of stealing an idea, their job is to plant one. To incept this idea, they have to go deep into the dream state and manipulate the person they want the idea to be in. The tricky part with this is that once the idea is planted, the task is done, meaning the team can not control the unpredictability of its growth. They have to complete the perfect job. Once into the dream state, they are attacked by the high profile person’s self conscious because the person underwent training against extractors. After many mind bending events and deep stories, the job gets completed. The team is free to do what they want, and some continue while other have other dreams they want to pursue.
All of the action sequences, different settings, and high profile actors made for a very high budget of about $160 million. Fortunately, all of this payed off considering the movie grossed over $830 million. Why not make a sequel? I am sure the work that everyone put into this movie was exhausting and possibly, they do not want to go through that again. With the right price, maybe they will, however. But the people have to really want it.
What did the reviews say? They were all glowing!
“A one-of-a-kind mind-blowing masterpiece!”
“Inception; Christopher Nolan’s first masterpiece!”
“Sci-fi perfection. A truly mesmerizing film.”
Christopher Nolan directed this film and wowed us all…again. He also directed the Dark Knight trilogy which brought a similar level of unpredictability. Now he has two great options for sequels. I hope he makes as least one of them if not both! I would like to see Inception 2 rather than Robin, but I will enjoy either 🙂
Another movie I have never seen. Maybe I will try and watch it sometime. Why are they trying to plant this idea in a guy’s head? Is it just a job, or is there some overarching plot that could be carried into the sequel?
First of all, can I just mention how excited I got when I saw what movie you decided to write about!!! I also recently watched this movie and was absolutely mesmerized by it, it was mind-blowing. I was really hoping for a sequel too because it would so cool to see how the ending of Inception played out. Since his totem proved he was still in a dream, the second movie could feature how he lived out his dream.
Sci-fi isn’t really high up on my list of favorite genres but this movie does seem really interesting. It also seems really complicated and I wonder if you’re going to have to watch the first movie to understand the sequel. I’ll have to add this to my list of movies to watch in the future because the movie does sound pretty cool.