Everything ACTUALLY Wrong with Inception 

When Mal says they were in Arthur's mind she's correct. Arthur is the dreamer his dream is what makes the physical place of the dream. Saito is the subject, his subconscious populates Arthur's dream world. That's why when Arthur's shot the dream collapses

This film does have issues but Cobb's totem isn't the top. It's his wedding ring, Watch it again.

If you've ever had a lucid dream, you would understand what the idea behind "forgetting" you're dreaming or not. You can realize you're dreaming, and then get caught up in what happens and forget your dreaming and lose your lucidity.

Love the comment at the very beginning about the weird character-names. Being Dutch, the name for DiCaprio's character has always struck me as amusing. Dom Cobb is phonetically very similar to the Dutch insult 'domkop' meaning a dumb person, like the English insult 'dummy'. The fact that his wife's name 'Mal' literally translates to one of the Dutch words for 'silly' makes it even funnier, because it makes them a married couple named Dummy and Silly. Can't imagine this being intentional though.

From what I *remember*, Cobb requires a more powerful kick than a normal person. That, or he's freaking paranoid and specifically asked for a water kick. Both theories make sense if you think about it, because the latter isn't really a theory so much as the movie telling us 'he's paranoid' multiple times and me pointing out that it would stand to reason. :P

Let's nitpick your nitpicks: A. So in the whole preparation montage Yusuf says that he adjusted the sedative to leave ear function unimpaired, allowing for falling to wake the dreamer. If this was an added attribute, then clearly they must not have had it in the initial heist, thus requiring the bathtub (as water does tend to wake people up). B. The initial heist was, in a sense, in both Arthur's and Saito's minds as Arthur was the one who designed and hosted the maze and Saito populated it. This is why the dream collapses when Arthur dies. C. Saito hired them because the entire team disappeared without a trace before he woke up. D. Well if dreams make time pass faster (from the perceived view of the dreamer), then dream business meetings are very effective for planning a heist in a short period of time. E. How the hell are they supposed to know what's down in the dream or how it's going to play out. They say that they can't have specificity and don't plan it out in depth because of this. F. Rolling people off beds isn't as cool. G. Kicks have be synchronized between both the layer and the one above (Flight descent, bridge jump, elevator, bombs, defib, jumping off the building).

That thing about making Ariadne tell Cobb about the shortcut only for him to tell her to explain it to someone else was one of the biggest anger inducing moments in my cinema viewing life. How a writer could let something like that slip by is beyond me.

This poor guy. Two movies that came out the same year star Leo and his crazy wife. The man just can't catch a break.

My conclusion, I agree with all your gripes about the mechanics of Inception, the kicks, the dream machine, the chemical enhancements, etc. But you're totally off base with Cobb's decisions and mistakes. That's the conflict of the movie. Everything would've definitely gone perfectly if he didn't exist, but that's what gives the movie depth and meaning. It'd just be a lame scifi thriller otherwise but his tortured psyche makes this a legendary movie that I don't like.

The reason why the names sound so weird is because the writers tried hard to make them spell D.R.E.A.M

Your frustration is so amusing I feel guilty enjoying it.

Damn, your analysis made me completely reconsider Inception. You made so many valid points that I never even noticed. Congrats on being a very observant viewer!

People don't feel speed and from floating...They feel it from acceleration and/or jolts...Yusuf was going downward in the van...Which made the 2nd level gravity-less...But there were no jolts on the 2nd level...That's why the 3rd level was unaffected...

9:25 the dreamer's subconscious (ariadne in this case) can't bring in projections 10:14 9.1 years is close enough to ten, sheesh it's just an approximation 21:20 the passage of time in movies is pretty much never realistic 21:58 or they could just shoot themselves and not wait a week... 23:05 it's the sudden surprise sense of falling that wakes you up. if you know you will fall it's not a kick

Though I belong to the camp of people who see some problems with Inception's plot and the way it betrays its own mechanics, a lot of the nitpicks here (mainly ones having to do with Cobb's decisions and faults in planning) are complaints about characters being irrational. Granted, certain creative decisions are definitely made in favor of spectacle over logic, but characters making irrational and even dumb decisions is only realistic. People are irrational.

Not commenting on anything else, you're mostly right. The only problem I have is when you talk about Cobb's totem. Well, in the movie he never says that's his totem. He only ever says it was his dead wife's. Cobb never mentions his own totem. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that his totem is his wedding ring (he never has it on in the real world, always does in the dream world). The top spinning at the end is kind of a red herring. You have to look at his hand. Then again, I could be wrong.

My critique is far shorter : when entering the mind of someone, was a gunfight the most interesting thing Nolan could think of? He should play Psychonauts (2005) and learn.

I totally agree with TP. The movie was good and entertaining, but I don't think it's as smart as people think it is. Again, that doesn't take away it's entertaining factor, because it has some really awesome SFX and the acting and directing is top notch. I think people who've fooled themselves into thinking it's more deeper than it actually is are the ones butthurt over this video, or any criticizing of the movie. Just like the Cinema Sins video, people just don't like when others point out flaws. Personally, I'm the type who can live with liking a flawed movie. People are wound too tight nowadays. Gotta learn to loosen up and not take things so seriously. Why so serious?!

1. Cobb and his crew setup for 2 layers of dreams because Cobb's unconscious held his dead wife. I thought they made that plain in the beginning when Cobb got bitched at for having his dead wife mess everything up. 2. Why not a water kick? I mix it up in MY job. Why can't industrial spys? Maybe the bathtub, being dramatic, was a 3. Cyto may have found his first spy. He was a desperate man with nothing to lose by having this spy work for him. Finally, Cyto may have recognized one of the best spys around from his reputation, and knew half the failure was not because of Cobb, but because of the crappy architect. If he had a decent architect, Cobb would have successfully extracted the data despite his wife. MAYBE Cyto knew Cobb was the only one who EVER did inception, leaving Cobb the ONLY person qualified to do inception. 4. Of COURSE Industrial giants have the ability to wipe out murder charges! We live in America dude. This is the land of robber barons. This is a land that failed to regulate banks and stock broker companies after 2008. Banks and Stock Brokers don't directly contribute to GDP. Why don't you think we started regulating them after the whole, "too big to fail" issue happened. 5. Cobb didn't have time to leave with his kids, and he didn't want his kids to grow up to learn what he did for a living. Don't you want to preserve that innocence you see in the movie? 6. If the justification bothers you, ignore it. The point of "loving the bad guy" plot is to feel mixed and dirty when he wins. As far as I see it, Cobb is helping one shark eat another, and that is a wash anyway. Cyto's last job is neutral more than anything. 7. The point of the maze with no opening was she thought outside the box. She broke the rules. That was the real test. She had to break the rules, build escher paradoxes, and basically make the scenery unfair, even impossible for the target. 8. Ok, you win this one. I too think the time difference between reality and dream would be variable. I also think their explanation why was crappy. However, we can both agree that there IS a time difference. The plot moves on. 9. You don't have to think faster than anyone to trick them. There are many arts for this, but the first one that comes to mind are magicians. 10. Yes, his totem sucks. However, if he didn't tell or show anyone, how would they know what his totem is supposed to do? Also, she he was pretty psychologically messed up by the time Ellen Page came around. She gave him a catharsis to run to. They explained catharsis is the most powerful emotion in this movie. 11. They have dream business meetings to practice the heist, and to review each other's work. They are called working meetings in the real world. 12. I am sure Cobb let the architect build stuff because he didn't pay attention on purpose, and she could hide things easily from him. 13. People know the layout by asking the architect along the way. 14. The reason the architect did the math in her head so fast, was because she rounded before multiplying. I have seen many engineers do this many times when doing quick math like this. 15. They did the heist in 3 hours because they used kicks. It is debatable if Cobb was left behind from those kicks. This is why he stayed in there for 9.1 years. That is why Cyto looked so old in the beginning. 16. Apparently, we watched a 10 hour montage in 3 hours. There were many opportunities for time to lapse. 17. He is a rich man, he could have bought all the airlines for all we know. He could have easily found out which airline the target was using. He may have bought the airline because he could have also made a profit after the inception was accomplished. I think companies buying each other is a little more common than your competitor buying out the airplane you will fly in for one of the longest flights you can be on. I think buying the airline may have been less suspicious from that point of view. 18. Good criminals ask the least amount of crime from new or unreliable criminals. The best way to handle that situation would be for the stewardess to not even know. For all she knows, she was just ordered to stay away for 10 hours. For all she knew, they were rich freaks at a gay stag orgy. I would want to hide away from that for 10 hours myself. 19. Another reason to buy the airline is to get the pilot with the smoothest hand. Also, buying the whole airline gives Cyto the option to change the route to go around any bad weather. Finally, I have been on planes since I can remember. Never once have I been in a commercial plane that just, "dropped a foot." 20. I think the timer running down may only allow a person the option of waking up. Actually waking up is a function of your recently changed circadian rhythm. In other words, the timer running down is very likely less reliable than a kick. Also, a kick is better than waiting 9 years in your dream to wake up. 21. They don't have a definite plan. Remember Cyto's psycho wife can go crazy and prolong the potential definite plan. The extra time is extra contingency. Anyone who plans for a living knows how fast plans can go awry. 22. The reason they used timed bombs was because they WERE using synchronized timers. Rolling people off the bed at the wrong second, could leave someone in limbo. 23. The reason they didn't call in a dragon or do something extreme was because each layer of dream was a base for the next layer. If the dragon got out of hand, then the heist is over. The rocket launcher solution was much more controlled than that. 24. Dieing in the dream and going into limbo was a conversation they should have had before. However, Cobb's desperation kept Cobb from telling anyone until it was too late. He was worried his best and only team would quit. Then he wouldn't be able to see his kids again. He explained that plainly in the movie. 25. What do you mean there is not kick in the plane? Didn't you say before the pilot could have dropped the plane a foot? Didn't Cyto buy the airline? 26. You win this one, he should have just told them limbo was not a big deal. He should have just told them they just needed to kill themselves. However, the plot rolled on the same when he didn't tell them. So, what? 27. Isn't clear how Cobb is changing his memories? Doesn't the elevator metaphor show how he is trying to bury her as deep as he can so she is stuffed away as best as possible from his heists? Isn't this the solution you said he should have been doing? Remember, in this world concurrent dream technology was a recent invention. I am sure dream psychology would also be immature. 28. He doesn't banish his wife because he is still attached to her. He only let her got at the end of the movie after all. You can be attached to someone you don't trust. It is called poisoned love. 29. Ari is the only one concerned because she didn't grow complacent in working with Cobb all the time. You would be surprised at what people get complacent at. 31. Cobb, doesn't want to believe his co-workers know. His co-workers don't want to believe its a serious problem. They have been successful until Cyto. They have made gobs of cash before. 32. This is a movie with one of the central topics about how people can lose their sense of reality. Of coarse Cobb lost his sense long long ago that his dream wife and his real wife are not the same. Of coarse he would struggle with the idea that he can control her. Of coarse he would struggle with the idea that his dream wife still loves him. Did you know there is a mental disorder where the patient truely believes they are dead, despite the mountains of evidence in front of them. It is called The Cotard Delusion. 33. Cobb's dead wife showed up in the first dream because this was an inflection point in his life. This is supposed to be the first time she REALLY caused a BIG problem. His reaction was the dream elevator. I don't think there are any references to the dream elevator before the first dream in the movie. 34. Isn't the architect supposed to lie about a hospital to a man who's subconcious is trying to sabotage the dream? Wasn't Ari supposed to keep the maps a secret? 35. EVERYONE including Cobb needed to know the shortcuts in case they helped. Also, they were short on time. Cobb is REALLY desperate to get to his kids. Also, she could only tell them on the radio in front of Cobb. Unless they spent precious time making Cobb turn off his radio and walk away. Also, Cobb was under pressure. People make mistakes under pressure. 36. He didn't pick that place to have his therapy session. He went to the limbo created by his wife and him. Also, the forth layer was not contained, or built by the architect. So, the forth layer was probably MUCH bigger in his subconscious than any of the maps the architect made. The forth layer was everything other than the maps. The other three layers were just the tip of the iceburg. I am tired. I want to go to bed. I think most anyone can finish the rest of the movie. However, NO movie can fully explain EVERYTHING. You have to fill in the gaps with your own thinking that makes sense. I have seen movies where you cannot fill in the gaps with ANY explaination. I have NEVER seen a movie without gaps. Anyone who looks so hard for gaps in movies must hate movies. The point of watching this movie is not to find gaps, but to ask what the author is trying to say, and think about the ramifications. Could you imagine a world where your dreams can be invaded by anyone? How different would that world be from ours? Do we cause inception on each other without dream hoping? Good Night All

the entire movie is actually Cobb's dream. Mal was right. She escaped by jumping while Cobb remained in Limbo, which is where the entire film takes place.

Wiping out a murder charge is *very* easy for powerful and wealthy people. Global monopolies of any kind are extremely dangerous. A global monopoly on *energy* would be absolutely disastrous. I can't argue with your point about fighting the competition being equally "corporate greed' but preventing an energy monopoly is, inherently, a good idea. And, why does everyone try to tear apart Nolan's movies with "science"? When did scientific veracity become a requirement for a fictional film where dream sharing is possible? This is the first one of these where the logic is flawed. I won't go into it. I just thought it should be stated.

"People are always accusing my films of having plot holes, and I’m very aware of the plot holes in my films and very aware of when people spot them, but they generally don’t." - christopher nolan i'm pretty sure that most of the flaws pointed out here are intented.(not counting the silly ones) Moreover i would say, you did not fully understand the movie.(you only touched the surface) One example: the Totem. (what it means in my opinion) "that way, when you look at your totem, you know without a doubt, that you are not in someone else's dream" You are absolutely right: in everybody else's dream the top would fall and that is exactly what the totem should do. It tells you one simple thing: "I am not dreaming, because in my dream the top would continue to spin". --> Therfore you either are awake or in someone else's dream. This is also the reason cobb is always spinning the top. The whole movie he is afraid, mal is right and he is still dreaming. So the totem is only a way to tell if YOU are the dreamer. When somebody else touches it and knows what you would expect from it, he could make you believe, that you are dreaming. (Which is exactly what cobb does to mal) "Dreams feel real when we are in them, it's only when we wake up we realize, something was actually strange" Did you realize those mistakes watching the movie? ;)

The dismissive tone throughout this review suggests an opinion that borders on a contempt for the work. If the inconsistencies are inconsistencies, and not a product of dream logic or the film being about Inception being performed on Cobb (one common interpretation), then it needs to be argued as such. To not even attempt to address this means that you completely lack any insight, or are lazy, or are deliberately overlooking this meaning to allow you to skewer a film you didn't enjoy.

One thing that bugs me about this video is the fact that you assume that these people, whilst "professional" (in a field that doesn't have much professionals to begin with) are unable to make mistakes in high pressure situations. I'm not deffending the movie for being flawless but thinking that the characters cannot make a mistake in calculation and whatnot is just wrong.

You can't make a movie interesting by sorting everything according to the facts, extra drama is needed

Nice breakdown. I think the idea of the "kick" had some scope creep for the writers. The idea sounds like it was meant to be that feeling of when you fall in a dream and wake up. This usually happens just as you're getting to sleep. They call it a "hypnic jerk". So the kicks from WITHIN a dream would make sense. But then they conflate that idea with the feeling of falling in real life while sleeping and waking up from that. They are two different sensations that got mixed up to create a confusing story. All that said, it's a fun movie with a great soundtrack.

7:09 It does have a beginning and end. It's one of those mazes where you go from the edge to the center. So even the redraw has an end. As for the beginning, you couldn't see it because DeCaprio's hand was blocking it, because his pen was on top of it. Where else would you begin a maze?

1. Who actually gets pissed off about the names sounding "weird"?! Ariadne is the Greek heroine who guided Theseus through the labyrinth, and the other names, most very common (Robert, Arthur, Dominic, Saito) are named like that to specifically spell "Dreams" 2. You seem to not understand the difference between the Dreamer and the Subject. Saito's subconscious fills the dream, but Arthur is the dreamer and controls the world. Same with the snowy dream, Fischer is unknowingly the subject and Eames is the dreamer. 3. "hoW wAs hE kiDnapped fOR a WeEk?". It's a dream, time is much different to the dreamer, anyone who's dreamed can relate to this. But even so, he was NOT kidnapped for a week, it wasn't even for a day. They originally planned to do it for a week, but Saito getting shot sped that up and it only took a few hours. 4. Rather than focusing on some random flight attendant putting knockout drugs in, they made Cobb do it so it was obvious what was going on and so idiots didn't complain about some new character, although it seems that you'll complain either way. 5. Fischer's subconscious was trained and militarized, which is why they couldn't obviously move walls and change everything around. 6. Cobb knows that you'll forget what's happening once you're in limbo, he's not being an idiot by not telling them to do something that they can't do. It makes much more sense that Cobb would try and avoid anyone going into Limbo instead. 7. you say you were under the impression that Limbo was further down than four levels, but why would you think that? It gets so unstable that often you will end up in limbo after as little as two or three. 8. "The wallet's worth more than that" How is that sloppy writing? At least explain your ridiculous comments. I could make a hundred of these comments on the whole video but I'd rather not. I don't understand how someone can interpret so much about a movie so wrong.

"No they're in Saito's mind." Was that a serious comment? While you're explaining the dream mechanics in the movie? Because they were clearly in Cobb's dream. The dreamer creates the world, the subject populates it with his projections. How do we know that they're in Cobb's dream at that point? Because the dream does not collapse until Cobb gets dunked in the tub. And I think that answers your question of why Arthur isn't set up with a kick.

well, the top wasn't his totem in the first place...

Just one point. Everything about multiple dreams levels explained tells us that time is expanded further each level down. Then, we're told that limbo lasts extremely long, and that the only person who has gone through it and come out sane was Cobb, and he wasn't exactly using a calender. So why does it matter that he is taking a five conversation with his projections of guilt (which doesn't make much sense anyways)? If it used the same formula as a the special formula, that would translate into fifteen seconds on the level above. Not that long in actuality, not to mention that they're waiting on Fischer anyways. And if they're going on Limbo's distorted time, it would translate into being less than one ten-thousandth of a second. We don't have confirmation either way, though. Also, something I thought that was extremely obvious, the ending also presumes that Saito will still stick to his end of the bargain after essentially spending fifty years to himself. A few days in solitary confinement can be psychological torture, imagine what fifty years would do. Saito should've gone completely insane, and probably quite vengeful towards Cobb because Cobb failed him.

Haha, I love reading the comments here. People are so touchy. Relax the film is great, he even says he thinks the film is good himself.... however it's ok to poke fun at it's shortcoming and still think it's a great film. I love Inception, it ranks in my top 10 films, but I thought this analysis was rather funny.

I agree that the movie has some mistakes, but you made some too.

It’s a movie about making movies. Nolan has said this. It’s simple

On why they had two levels, it's largely because they weren't working for Saito. Also, how are dragons and laser guns realistic and unconvincing for the subject.

Inception=stupid, Prometheus= One of the best sci-fi films ever...

the entire movie is a maze( reason why it started in the middle of a dream and had no offical start) there is no way out. Cobb did not want to know the way out of the maze because he wanted to stay in the dream state.

Nolan's movies are enjoyable but the more you think the more it falls apart.. and there's hardly any character focus.. the reason why Nolan isn't in my top list director.. he is just a great commercial director

Sedagive ?! SEDAGIVE !?! That made my day - God, I miss Gene Wilder.

I had a few thoughts on the end of your video, I think you might have misinterpreted that part of the movie. But keep in mind I loved your review, and that the following is pure conjecture 22:26 I think the charges were to kill them in level 3 22:36 I think Ariadne just misspoke 22:40 Ariadne throws herself and Fischer off the building, which actually does kill them when they land (we just didn't see the landing) 22:48 Eames blows up the hospital, which kills them again (we just don't see thee actual death again) 22:50 Ariadne, Eames, and Fischer are moving because of Arthur's elevator explosion (it's just that the explosion kick didn't work, so they wake up from dying | or that the elevator kick hadn't kicked in yet, and they died in the hospital, and get kicked to the elevator at the same time) 22:53 They all leave the elevator and awake in the van as a result of the water kick, not the elevator kick 22:56 So because they are leaving dreams the proper way, the van should not kick them back to the plane So basically; Ariadne and Fischer leave limbo by dying Eames, Ariadne, and Fischer leave dream 3 (hospital) by dying Arthur, Eames, Ariadne, and Fischer leave dream 2 (elevator) by being kicked out from falling in water on dream 1 (van)

Bruh, the whole 'why doesn't he kill dead wife' and 'why doesn't he ignore his projections' are just his character flaw, his guilt. It's like you were saying 'why doesn't James (SH2) just forget about his naggy wife?', or 'why doesn't Jesus just, y'know, give in to the devil in the desert?' Bruh...

I could overlook a lot of things with this movie, but the logic breaking down near the end really got to me. After I realized the inconsistencies it kind of ruined it a bit. I'm glad Twin Perfect saw all the issues and made a superb video about them!

You know what this means...If nothing makes sense (the rules of a dream) then Cobb is still dreaming!

I stumbled on your Twin Peaks and Mullholland Dr. explanations and I’m really shocked you, of all people, can’t look beyond the internal inconsistencies to see the real meaning of the movie. Just because Nolan directs blockbusters doesn’t mean he lacks the ability to use abstraction in his movies to talk about something else entirely.

I grant you they either didn't think the "kick" mechanic through or, more likely, it got completely jumbled by multiple people wanting to insert various scenes for the sake of making it more entertaining. That said, I think it was worth it :)

Ariadne is the name of the Ancient Greek Princess who helped Theseus escape out of the Labyrinth, after killing the Minotaur.

I know that this is one of your younger videos, and I'm mainly just here for laughs, which you deliver candidly. That being said, I disagree with most of the moral judgements. 1. There's nothing inherently wrong with Saito attempting to sabotage the competition, especially if it PRESERVES competition by preventing a Monopoly, which ought to frighten all of us a lot more than Coffee Bean planting seeds in Starbucks (pun obviously intended). 2. While the concept of Mind Control scares us and triggers associations with Manipulation, it's fair to presume that ANY body in this Corporate Game will have engaged in some measure of Manipulation on a Bureaucratic Scale, so it's naïve to attack Saito of all people while at the same time feigning hostility for Corporate Power in general. The Power's already there, and using a few mind tricks to boost a young heir's morale and sense of individuality is hardly the worst course of action towards preventing a Multinational Energy Tycoon from cornering the Global Market, all just to resolve an adolescent Father Complex. 3. Finally: let's not forget that "mind control" is a dated trope in "villainy". "Oh, no!! He planted thoughts in MY mind; who is *he* to challenge MY autonomy and genius?" Most people will willingly agree to sacrifice some measure of their sovereignty if the facts are made clear to them; that's why we get *vaccinated.* The trick is to make people SEE those facts, and if a movie features that sort of subliminal advertising, guess what? That's what the audience PAID TO SEE, and ALL good films appeal to your "Subconscious" (why not call it that?). Let's not be like the methhead in _Breaking Bad_ who's calling for "Tucker" and says, "you don't put thoughts in my head." Yeah, that's valuable stuff you've got in there for sure, pal. [Rolls eyes.] I'm having fun with this, though. I am happy to see just how far you've come in just nine years. Your David Lynch critiques show growth, maturity, and subtlety in passing judgement. I just watched this one for fun, much like I watched the film itself. I take it you had fun earning all those dislikes. I'll still defend your _Twin Peaks_ thesis to the death, however. *Good Eye.* *[({M.M.)}]*

Very well done. You pointed almost every complain I had with the movie's logic except one. Let me explain, the reason why no one knew about the death not waking them up thing because the movie explains that cobb bribed the chemist to not tell them so they wouldn't be afraid and back off.

People confuse entertaining with intelligent. Inception is far from smart it's just confusing. But it is entertaining you will not be bored watching this movie.

I think a betwr alternative world be if Arthur woke up when the van hit the bridge, and since he wasnt in the second level anymore the dream started to collapse causing the others to fall and wake up.

OMG!! This is hilarious, I love minute 18's opening explaining the whole air duct thing. You've got a gift my friend.

Yeah, Inception is very good, but.... Masterpiece? Try Interstellar. Or Return of the King

I can highly recommend the Google Talk "Why Inception should have won 'Best picture'" by Kyle Johnson. It also tackles several of the issues you have with the movie.

About the flight manifest and the attendant not spiking the drink: You just need to check the flight schedule to know which flight. The attendant could just have a clean criminal record and they didn't want to make her an accomplice to a crime that could result in manslaughter charges. Sure, she could be prosecuted for other lesser crimes of conspiracy, but they wouldn't be as severe.

You are a very smart man. My advice for a happy life: stay away from cinema, only misery and tears await you there.

You are looking at the very small details. Some of the details you thought of wrong, didn't make the movie less smart in any sense. You can pretty much point out all those small details in any movie. I'd even say it's an incredibly small amount of movie mistakes. I personally think the hole idea of Inception is genius and so well worked out. The story, idea and the free ending leading everyone to speculate if he's in a dream or not, is pretty smart in my opinion.

THANK YOU for making this video. I had about 60% of the same serious issues you highlight in this video when first watching it in theaters and had to endure 6 months of how "smart" and "mind-blowing" this movie was to cinema. Neither of which I believe it to be. I finally googled a video breakdown and this is by far the best. Cheers.

It's amazing how bad fans of this movie take criticism.

He didn't just get the kids out of the country because the whole thing was a dream, and he was really just too guilty of facing his children. You can know the whole thing was a dream by the end. No not the totem. But the kids were wearing the same thing throughout the whole movie, even in the end when we finally got to see their faces. Cobb didn't tell them that they could be stuck in limbo because he knew that they would decline going through with the mission in the first place, knowing the risk that is involved. Oh God, as I keep watching this video i have so many answers for him, I feel like this reviewer should've tried to answer his own questions in before asking them. You're supposed to accept laws in a movie, same as you're supposed to accept time travel in back to the future. But he's questioning some of these things. Although there were some serious points that I also had, including why he asked ariadne what the secret feature was, instead of telling the other person instead. Or some kick mechanics that also contradicted some moments in the movie. But I feel like little things like these could be found in so many "greatest movie of all time"(s) And I think that those inconsistencies could be due to him being in a dream the whole time, like none of what was shown in the movie was even reality. He was stuck in a loop the whole time. But finally getting to see his children's faces brought him out of the loop. Remember he was trying to change his memories?

One of the suggested hidden themes in the film is that dream building is basically what Nolan does for a living too, movies and the experience of going to a cinema and watching a film is like shared dreaming. In short, all those rule changes in the dream world are Nolan's way of saying ;the universe of a movie doesn't have to obey any rules either. It is a smart film, but not as smart as some make out. At least it's a step back in the right direction. I have to say, Interstellar doesn't have me feeling very excited at all, though I am sure Nolan fans will love it. You never know though, what I do like about Nolan is he aspires to great film makers like Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. There may well be a proper classic movie in him yet.

Well done guys, I've never watched a 20+ video so closely :P

Due to the sedative, a synchronized kick is needed. Yusuf's kick was too early and thus, the kicks weren't synchronized. This was designed to ensure that the team was able to stay where they were needed to finish the job. Instead with the sedative it takes two or more synchronized kicks in all levels with at least part of each kick happening at the same time. Arthur didn't have the second kick ready when the van drove off the bridge, so he wasn't awakened by the van falling off the bridge.

Can hardly except anyone to take a video seriously if it starts off with labeling people as "smart" and ""dumb".

You nailed it! It do has many flaws which you explained very well. Plot maker will feel shit after seeing them, but still a great and entertaining movie, the best I have seen.

From start to end, he's in limbo. The logic falling apart during the movie only means he's getting deeper into it and losing perception. At least that's the best case scenario, the other option... a writing mess.

She wasn't wrong about 10 years... Leo said 6 months... 6 x 20 = 10 years.

The thing about this movie is that the concept it brilliant. There may be plot holes here and there but not many of us could have thought up of an idea like this.

gosh, the level of pettiness of this dude. if you want to counter everything and make up arguments for the sake of it, everything else can also be used to counter your arguments to justify the script. Like what's the point of this video? Do the same for each and every movie you like because they are dumb, full of flaws and makes no sense too.

The whole film is a dream. Cobb never woke up. Moll did. He spent decades building an elaborate reality down there and got lost in it. By the end, he didn't care if he was dreaming anymore. This was my reading of the film. Inception is a masterpiece.

In the film it is said that while in a dream everything makes sense, it's only when you wake up that you realise it was weird. My personal opinion is that that is exactly what Nolan was going for. Watching it makes sense but once the film is over you go... huh, wait a minute :) (Plus-- Mol is on the opposite balcony when she jumps... no one else pick up on that, perfect example of what I wrote above)

7:10 Did she forget to put in a beginning and an end?! Good maze, you're hired! Hahaha! That had me! :]

In this way, it doesn't matter whether or not the top falls; the end tricks you into thinking it's important when you should be focused on what the kids are saying. They mention a castle on a hill, an image that has shown up multiple times in the dream. All the problems with the dream mechanics that we see are explained if every other character is a projection.

I came to the same conclusion myself that they changed the 'kick' rule suddenly to apply in the current dream state, but maybe that was always the logic when you end up in dreams within dreams. The way I see it is a kick from reality can wake you up from the 1st dream state, but from then on as you go further up, a kick from within the same dream state will only wake you up from that dream state and thus send you down a level. But a kick from level 1 will not send you to reality, it will just wake you up in level 1 (since you were put to sleep in level 1 to get to level 2). This means the kick from level 2 will send you to level 1 but you'll still be asleep within level 1 until you get that kick in level 1. Maybe that's why arthur didn't go to level 1 early. BUT now i've just finished writing this, i've realised this doesn't make much sense either. It's a complete paradox how they appear to have changed the kick rule half way through the film. But they would not be that stupid. It must be on purpose to get us talking like this.

I think the thing about Kicks is that they only wake you up from 1 lower dream state, so level 3 will wake level 4. And it must be done in sequence to wake up from level 4 to level 1 and then to reality, and the effects of the kick on a higher level lets say level 2 only effect level 3, but aftershocks of the effects on level 3 can be felt in level 4.

The explanation was part wrong. The water kick was actually used when the car hit the water. I'm pretty sure. And plus this brief was too logical. You can't bloody have a film for 10 years -.- I just think that this was too logical and this movie was creative and I thought everything makes sense if you didn't think of negativity.

Yes, this dream mechanics is a little hard to follow, but the problem is that I don't care enough about the plot to want to follow it. For a film about dreams, Inception is remarkably un-dreamy and not emotionally engaging.

This was a really intelligently written and well-presented video.

Any parent/guardian in Cobb's position would understand why he didn't risk taking his children abroad if he is wanted for a crime. It's easier to be on the move. The children would have stability even if he were found and arrested. It makes perfect sense. Fleeing anything with children that doesn't directly threatn their lives makes no sense.

i used to love Inception, but now everytime i think about it-i find it more and more frustrating

The whole movie is Cobb's projection and the actual inception is Mal and his father in law trying to convincing him to "wake up" and all the other characters are in on it. When they cant get him out, they put him in an alternate reality when we r first introduced to the chemist and make him face his demons through the "job", resulting in him believing the idea he's in reality. That's why he returns to " reality" and is able to project similar but older children and leave the top without waiting to watch it stop spinning. This would explain why he can't visit his children in the "real world" until the end, and basically answers every question about ability of architect to turn into James bond, basically every totem inconsistency, how 1 phone call could clear an international fugitive of murder/running out on his children, why job would happen after they failed 1st job, why father in law would give new student to go on Cobb's adventure, and would explain issues with kicks, assuming first level is actually several levels down. I do have concerns with some of the kicks, but if everything is based on Cobb's perception of reality, all the glaring holes seem more like clues that he's caught in a lvl between awake and limbo (dreaming?). Appreciate the analysis and opinion, but respectfully disagree and think this was one of the most thought provoking/entertaining movies in a long time.

Did you say "sedagive" at 2:09? SEDAGIVE?! That made me smile.

The problem with this movie is that it ignores many, many things that are very interesting about dreams. Deformed hands, slight variations in a face you think you recognized, familiar places that are slightly altered, insanely illogical conclusions inside the dream that don't make sense after you woke up, pictures, messages and motives from the unconcious, and then some. The supposed dream sequences feel just like movie scenes not like dreams.

18:22 genius, i've always hated that part

I just watched it for the first time in 10 years, and the whole way through was like "I actually liked this?" Immediately youtubed "does inception make sense". Thank you, you got at least 5 more laughs out of me on top of the 20+ I got from the rewatch. Fingers crossed for Tenet, eh? You may even get a 30 minutes video out of it bro.

This movie moves so quickly that everyone plays along in good faith. But there was still this feeling of 'illogic'. Never got around to figuring it out. Thanks a lot!! Gave it a big fat like

lol sweet video! my pet hate was the incredibly tense music lasting for hours and hours. the music was telling me "omg such stuff is happening!", but the visuals were telling me "omg nothing is happening, how long is this going to go on for"

Seriously you must have a really hard time enjoying movies lol. This movie was about a man that lost balance in his life but gains it back at the end. Everything else is just a cool movie way of showing that. Movies don't have to make 100% sense, that's why they're movies. In movies you can make the impossible possible. Your level of cynicism is nauseating. JUST SHUT UP AND ENJOY THE DAMN MOVIE

I had to stop after you said they didn't have to use a second dream level. They did. Saito redacted "key information" in the second level of the dream, and they anticipated he would do this, so they put the first level of that dream in his apartment so he would feel his life was truly in jeopardy and give them the information they needed. Second, there is no 'water' kick. The water effects a kick because of the resistance when you make a splash. It's the same way Arthur effected a kick in the elevator later, and this is clearly explained in the movie. Instead of falling backwards you are essentially falling forward.

I didnt like Inception straight up, it just didnt click for me i just went Meh when the credits came up

No, the kick in the hospital is not for Ariadne and Cobb, it's for Eames. This'll wake him up in the elevator by the time Arthur was blowing up the elevator, and so on. They were supposed to ride 3 kicks back up the layers, not two. The van hitting the water was not supposed to wake them up on the airplane, and it certainly didn't if you remember them SWIMMING OUT OF THE RIVER!

While I like Inception a lot, you touched on a lot of stuff that's always bugged me. Here's hoping they fix continuity errors in Inception 2: Electric Boogaloo.

I think subconscious works as a term of art over unconscious in this case. The "sub" brings to mind "lower", and all throughout the finale the plot is moved as they descend to "lower levels" of dreamscape.

the thing s the dude didn't understand the kick... it is described wrong in the movie ....if u drop the guy from, for example, bed he won't wake up he will hit the floor and wake up of pain...and not in 100% but if u were dreaming of falling from, for example, a clif u will wake up in your bed ...u don't need your bed to be falling...and the movie is correct for that matter

Maybe u have read this before;Character were named with purpose,like Ariadne:"Comes from the legend of Ariadne,daughter of King Minos.She was in charge of labyrinths and helped Theseus find the way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth".Dom Cobb:"Dom means ‘Of God’, Mal’s name shares this meaning, possibly linked to them ‘being gods’ in the dreamworld. Cobb’s name also comes from Nolan’s film Following, in which is a thief who uses his art to steal things so that people would re-examine reality"

Gotta love when commenters are too butthurt that their favorite movie has some flaws to keep from actually listening to what the guy is saying, he’s not saying that it’s a bad movie, it could be taken that its fans just make the movie out to be more clever than it is.

"framing him for murder because he wouldn't suicide with her" 😆😆😆😆 you got me laughing hard for that one!! I'm laughing 😆😆😆😆

This is what happens when you basically have a good story idea and then just complicate the crap out out of it so it appears " smart ".

ok this is awsome! how have i not seen this channel b4? How do you guys not have like a million subscribers?! Amazing Content.

There didn't have to be a kick on the plane because they knew exactly how long the flight was so that they could set the timer for exactly when the plane landed on the dream machine.

I thought the movie was genius. Now don't get me wrong, the mechanics were a bit flimsy, yes, but the movie retains its brilliance in its more abstract concepts, such as the sensing of a dreamers foreign nature, falling awake due to a kick, the dropping into limbo, and many others. It's the things about dreams that we've all noticed that we never really put together and the concepts within dreams that perplex us explained logically, rather than the mechanics of the job itself that make it extremely intelligent. In other words, think of it this way: the theories of Einstein are undeniably brilliant, yet he still had flaws within certain elements of them, in translate: the mechanics.