Spoiler Review - Inception

Inception is mostly just a film about where you can have a dream inside a dream, inside a dream. The idea went round for years and some try it. Two men, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are extractors, they preform corporate espionage by using military equipment to get into someone subconscious and extract information by doing shared dream.

Dom and Arthurs target is a Japanese businessman named Saito (Ken Watanabe). When they tried to extract information from Saito, it failed when a part of Dom’s memory comes into the equation, his wife Mal, (Marion Cotillard). While out his subconscious, Saito tells them that he was testing them to s

ee if Dom’s team is capable of preforming the task of “inception”, planting an idea into someone else’s subconscious.

Saito’s plan was to get Cobb and his team to plant an idea of dissolving a company into the mind of Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite) heir, his son Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy).  Cobb’s only agreed to do this for Saito because he Saito said that he would drop the murder changes on Cobb, and if that happens that it can allow Cobb’s to return home. He accepts and Cobb gets his team together.

Cobb and his team have to get Robert Fischer somewhere isolated. Cobb sedates him and brings in the extractors to dream share. In the first layer of the dream, one of Cobb’s team created it in rainy downtown. The team abducts Fischer, but because we are in Fischer’s subconscious, he has trained subconscious to protect him, Saito gets wounded. Another of Cobb’s teammates temporarily takes the look of Fischer’s godfather, Peter Browning (Tom Berenger), to get Fischer to reconsider his fathers will. Yusuf (team member), drives the team around while they are going in the second layer of the dream.

Now, Arthur dreams up this layer, it is hotel. This time instead of abducting Fischer, they recruit him. Once on their side Cobb, his team and Fischer go to the third layer, snowy mountain fortress. To get out all the dreams there has to be a sort of “kick” to wake them up at once in all three layers. In the hotel, Arthur placed them all in an elevator to hold them down. In Yusuf’s he drove off a bridge so when they hit the water the “kick” will bring them back. Saito finally dies from where he was wounded, and Cobb’s projection of Mal sabotages the whole thing, she kills Fischer, sending them both into limbo. Cobb and Ariadne enter limbo to find Fischer and Saito, while Eames sets up the kick in the third dream.

Cobb remains in limbo to find Saito, but Ariadne finds Fischer and pushes him off the balcony of the house they were in. That resuscitated him at the fortress, where he enters a safe to discover and accept the planted idea: that his father wishes him to be his own man. All the team but Cobb and Saito follow the synchronized kicks back to reality. Cobb eventually found an aged Saito in limbo and they both remembered the agreement, they both killed each other to return to reality where everyone is on the plane.

Once arriving in Los Angeles, Cobb’s goes to his father-in-law who takes him home to his children. As he is trying to determine if this is a dream or reality, he gets distracted by his kids and ignores the outcome.

On being a thriller I would rate this 4 out of 5 because it didn't really give that sense of surprise to the audience at the end but did have a good mysterious story.