Inception (4K Ultra HD/BD) (4K Ultra HD)

This is an excellent film. It's a daring film too. Like another film, The Usual Suspects, it starts in the present with a scene between an old man and a young one. The old man asks him what he wants and the young man struggles to recall what he wants from the old man. It leads to the start of the story in the past and an extraction job on the train to Kyoto, Saito's offer to Cobb, the assembly of the team, putting together their game plan for putting an idea into a financial rival's mind, the dream shared aboard the jet, onto the opening scene again when the young man why he's here then onto the final scene. The plot is superb. One man, Cobb, wants to find his way home to his family while another one, Saito, is willing to pay a fortune to change the outcome of events with a rival business firm through the inception of an idea into his rival's mind. The cast is also superb. It took more than Leonard DiCaprio to pull this story off. In this case there was some strong writing. Something closer to six or seven characters were needed for the development of the plot. Is it too complicated or just too intriguing? I really enjoy watching a good film again and again and have truly enjoyed Inception. Dreaming by itself was no basis for a story but to the credit of Inception it introduced dream-sharing by way of a new technology. In view of the developments over the past 60 years viewers will find it quite easy enough to suspend their disbelief. Cobb and his wife, Mal, put the learning to use by way of extracting ideas by people. Once they began building dreams within dreams extraction was easier but time moves at a different and slower pace at various levels of a dream. It can also become difficult to distinguish a dream from reality and they finally lose their way into the sub-conscious. After fifty years down there Cobb tries inception on Mal and plants an idea in her mind which leads to their return but Mal suspects that she's still dreaming and wants Cobb to return to reality. One night she tries to blackmail Cobb by informing the police that she suspects her husband will kill her. Dreams can be usually brought to an end when the dreamer runs out of time on the machine or is killed. After she kills herself Cobb leaves the country to avoid arrest but he's still deeply filled with regret and guilt about Mal who is constantly trying to keep him with her. It's interesting how one storyline is affecting the other one and the characterization which results from it. Ken Watanabe plays Mr. Saito. He's heard about extraction and rumours about conception. He's convinced that he will be financially ruined by his rival, Mr. Fischer. Now he's heard rumors about Cobb's skill but before he asks Cobb he wants to make sure that he's talking to the right mind. So he arranges an audition for Cobb's crew under tough conditions with himself as the target. Cobb extracts the information but he realizes that Saito has known all along about the job from start and asks why? Saito was never interested in the extraction but the level of Cobb's skill. While Cobb extracted the information, Saito wasn't impressed with the level of skill that Cobb showed. His opinion of Cobb quickly rises when he realizes that he's still dreaming. Cobb placed him in a dream inside a dream. In the following scene Saito makes an offer to Cobb of financial reward and a safe return to America if he can succeed in planting an idea in his rival's mind. Money is no problem with Saito. So Cobb finds a top-notch crew who will work for him and his partner, Arthur. DiCaprio clearly dominates the first crew but when Saito tells him to put together a better team he becomes part of the team. Michael Caine puts in a strong appareanance as Cobb's father-in-law who finds him another architect in dream-sharing, Ariadne played by Ellen Page. Then it's onto Africa for an interview with an old friend, Eames played by Tom Hardy, who's a skillful thief and forger and introduces Cobb to Yusuf, the Chemist played by Dileep Rao. Fischer, played by Cillian Murphy, puts in another good performance as Saito's rival. What's really interesting are all the contributions everybody makes towards the development of the story. It is a well written story and well performed one. You'll also appreciate the quick pace. While the dream starts on the jet. The levels of the dream can always be identified. The first level of the dream can always be identified by the rain in a city downtown. The primary development is the appearance of projections from Fischer's mind into dream who will defend him against any attempt at extraction. On this level Saito is shot and dying but on the lower levels it will take longer for him to die. Eames attempts to kill him and end the dream but the sedative taken demands their return to consciousness in a particular fashion. If they die they are lost in a sub-consciousness of the dreamer. So they must go onto the next level of the dream inside a van that Yusuf is driving. The second level of the dream is found in an expensive hotel where Cobb plays a figure on this level known as Mr. Charles and poses as one of the projections sent to guard Fischer. Mr. Charles gains Fischer's trust and convinces him that a corporate figure in his father's company is betraying him and the only way to learn the truth is entering a third level of the dream. The third level takes place in winter and the mountains where Fischer fights to learn the truth and the team plants an idea in him.In the meantime Saito dies during the assault. The scenes in the sub-conscicous take place in beautiful weather on the seaside. The final beach scene leads you to an earlier scene from the start of the film: an old man asks Cobb what he wants. The old man is Saito who was killed and has been lost for years. Cobb now remembers the audition for Saito, the inception and his confrontation with Mal. He urges Saito, now an old man filled with his regrets and guilt to come back with him and be young again. Well, the next scene tells you what happen he finds himself waking aboard the jet with Fischer, Saito and his crew. Saito places a call to set things in motion which will clear the way for Cobb's return home. I've seen this film on numerous occasions over the past few years. It just keeps getting better. It only proves the importance of good writing and acting to one another as well as editing and directing. Suspense simply is not a factor. Yet the story constantly grips you. You simply don't realize the length of the film by its quick pace of the story.

Christopher Nolan may be the most brilliant, unconventional mainstream director working in Hollywood today, crafting intricate stories where narrative forms are stretched and twisted. Nowhere is this more obvious than "Inception," which turns into a multi-level Möbius strip -- worlds within worlds, dreams within dreams. Nolan delights in being able to conjure strange worlds that could never exist in real life, but he crafts a very heartfelt, powerful story for those visuals -- a story of love and loss, ambition and power, and a broken man haunted by guilt that constantly chases him through every dream. In the not-too-distant future (next Sunday A.D.), the military has created a technology that allows artificial shared dreaming. Within multi-leveled dreams, architects can create elaborate worlds, and special "extractors" can get information from a sleeping subject's brain. Oh, and there are several layers of dreaming, each with a different period of time passing. The movie opens with Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) trying to extract some information from tycoon Saito (Ken Watanabe). It turns out that this was actually an elaborate audition by Saito, who wants to hire them for an "inception" -- to plant a new idea in someone's head. Cobb isn't interested until Saito offers to clear him of the murder of his wife, which would allow him to return to his young children. Their target: Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), who has just inherited a massive energy conglomerate from his cold, callous father. Saito wants the company dissolved before it can become too powerful, so he wants the idea incepted into Robert's head. So Cobb gets together a gang of the best: clever forger Eames (Tom Hardy), dream-chemist Yusuf (Dileep Rao), and the new architect Ariadne (Ellen Page). But only Ariadne sees how troubled Cobb is, and that the memory of his dead wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) is deliberately sabotaging every mission he undertakes. As the team weaves their elaborate web of deception and dreams around Robert, Cobb finds that his demons are threatening their mission. You have to give it to Christopher Nolan: he doesn't dumb down his movies for the masses. "Inception" is a hard movie to even summarize because it's constantly growing more complicated -- the team is spread out over different dream levels, with different time periods passing and different perils attacking them simultaneously. It's half heist caper and half sci-fi meta-thriller... if that even makes sense. And while Nolan sculpts a strange Escheresque dream-world of labyrinths and never-ending stairs, he also crafts some powerful subplots about love and loss. As the plot unwinds, he intertwines Cobb and Fischer's personal issues with the main story of inception. Suddenly the constant firefights, explosions and free-falling elevators/vans aren't the only reason we're invested -- the audience is truly left wanting to see both men work out their issues and find some measure of inner peace. It also has spectacularly good special effects, particularly Arthur's battle in the hotel -- he scampers across the walls and ceilings, grappling with projections as he floats through empty halls. Not to mention the scene where Ariadne turns a whole city upside-down... literally. Honestly, the biggest problem with the movie is that the dreams sometimes make too much sense. Why do Fischer's projections have to actually TRAVEL to attack the team instead of... I don't know, materializing inside the building? Nolan also populates "Inception" with a lot of actors that he's cast in other projects, especially "The Dark Knight Rises." In fact, I can't help but wonder if DiCaprio's role was originally offered to Christian Bale, because we've also got Cotillard, Hardy, Watanabe, Murphy, Gordon-Levitt and Michael Caine. There are actually only a couple major actors who haven't worked with Nolan elsewhere. But this is one of DiCaprio's best roles, even if he's not very convincing as a father -- his Cobb is riddled with guilt and numb sorrow, and it's only prodding from Ariadne that finally gets him to confront his issues. All the other actors give lovely performances as well -- Cotillard is particularly wrenching as a strange shallow shade of a madwoman, as is Murphy as the downtrodden son of a powerful man. "Inception" is the kind of movie that we desperately need more of -- a wild Möbius strip of complex ideas, brilliant direction and powerful acting. This is truly a one-of-a-kind film, and not one to be missed.

Best movie ever !!

One of my favorite movies of all time. Truly a masterpiece from Nolan, and with an amazing musical score as well. Every time I watch it (and I’ve watched it like 25 times now) I notice details I’ve missed. If you haven’t seen this, what are you waiting for?? Same with other Nolan movies like Interstellar, Tenet, Memento and Dunkirk

Produit conforme a la description et pour ceux qui connaissent pas, un classique et un super bon film 😉

E' un film pazzesco, dal primo all'ultimo minuto. L'ho visto tre volte in poche settimane, ma sono certo se lo guardassi ancora, ne resterei sempre rapito e coglierei nuovi spunti di riflessione. Credo i messaggi che lancia siano diversi, tutti molto validi e "forti". Innanzitutto la fede come strumento di conoscenza, tale "atto" viene esplicitamente evocato all'inizio tra i protagonisti come unica possibilità di cambiare qualcosa della propria vita ed evitare di "diventare un vecchio pieno di rimpianti che aspetta la morte da solo". Questo punto fermo viene sviluppato da diversi personaggi in modo diverso, il primo come scelta d'amore sia per la propria redenzione, che per raggiungere la conoscenza appunto. Dall'altra una fede solo millantata che in verità fa fuori la libertà e si rivela unicamente come tentativo di auto-affermazione e imposizione del proprio pensiero. Sempre collegato a questo primo punto, si ritrova da un parte il presuntuoso tentativo di controllare la realtà, di creare un mondo fatto a misura per se, dall'altra l'accettazione serena dell'incapacità di bastare a se stessi, anche se pienamente coinvolti in un amore romantico pieno, coinvolgente e totale. Di nuovo vengono messi in contrapposizione l'ostinata determinazione a farsi tutto da se anche quando risulta irrimediabilmente "posticcio", e dall'altra la difesa dell'altra via che per quanto faticosa permette l'apertura a qualcosa di più grande, anche all'amore, e garantisce la salvezza. Questo passaggio fondamentale è annunciato in grande stile dalla quantomeno esplicita, frequente e deliziosa interpretazione di "Non, je ne regrette rien" di Edith Piaf. Vi è poi il tema non irrilevante della riconciliazione col padre, il desiderio nonostante tutto mai sopito di ricevere infine amore per restituire senso a una vita di amarezze; esso ricorda non poco la parabola del figliol prodigo. Per questi e altri aspetti, più sottili o nascosti tra le righe, per le avvincenti scene d'azione, per gli eleganti richiami al mito greco di Teseo e i suoi labirinti, e non ultima la splendida colonna sonora dell'infallibile Hans Zimmer, credo di non sbagliare dicendo che "Inception" è il miglior film di questo secolo, e probabilmente non solo.

Fantastic movie, highly recommend getting it. This movie shouldn't be streamed, you should own it. Don't know if the 4k version is worth it tho, I mean it looks good but it's obviously not on the same quality level as a modern movie that is actually shot in 4k. Standard blu ray might be more than sufficient if you want to save some money, tho I can't confirm since I don't have the standard blu ray.

Mit "Inception" hat Regisseur Christopher Nolan ein Meisterwerk geschaffen, wie es kein anderer geschafft hätte. Mit Darstellern, die auf der ganzen Linie überzeugen, einer Optik, die jedem Grafik-Designer das Wasser im Mund zusammenlaufen lässt, und mit einer Story, die verschachtelt und gut durchdacht ist. Ich widme mich lediglich dem Film und der Qualität des Films, nicht dem Bonusmaterial. Zur Story: Dom Cobb, gespielt von Leonardo DiCaprio, stiehlt als "Extractor" die Gedanken, Geheimnisse und Ideen von Menschen. Dazu versetzt er seine Opfer in einen Schlafzustand, um so in die Träume einzudringen und die gewünschte Information zu entwenden. Diese Form der Spionage ist eine sehr komplexe Technik, und Cobb ist der beste seines Fachs. Doch sein Beruf birgt Gefahr: Da er ein begehrter Industriespion ist, ist er ständig auf der Flucht. Und nun bekommt er einen Auftrag, mit dem er sein Leben wieder ins reine rücken kann: "Inception". Dabei wird kein Gedanke gestohlen, sondern der Zielperson wird ein Gedanke eingepflanzt. Dies ist jedoch ein immenses Vorhaben, da so der Charakter der Person komplett verändert werden kann; die Person könnte den Gedanken auch garnicht erst annehmen. Daher wird ein Team aus Experten benötigt, um die Inception richtig zu erfüllen. Dabei wird nicht nur das Team von Cobb auf eine harte Probe gestellt, sondern auch er selbst: den Cobb, um Genau zu sein seine Vergangenheit, wird zu einer echten Bedrohung. Die Geschichte des Films wird dynamisch erzählt und nach und nach wird der Zuschauer in die traurige Vergangenheit von Dom Cobb geführt. Der Film hat eine Menge Actionszenen, u.a. Schusswechsel und Verfolgungsjagten, die den Spannungsbogen stets auf hohem Niveau halten. Die Schauspieler setzten die Ideen von Nolan grandios um vor allem Leonardo DiCabrio und Ellen Page glänzen in Paraderollen. Die Story ist tiefgründig, aber nicht zu komplex. So geht die Geschichte des Films nicht in der bombastischen Visuallisierung und dem genau so bombastischen Sound unter. Optik & Sound: Hier glänzt der Film auf der ganzen Linie. Die Effekte, die Kameraführung und der Ton sind Punkte, in denen Inception der Konkurrenz nicht nur davonläuft, sondern schon in den Zug steigt und allen davonrauscht. Schließlich gab es nicht grundlos Oscars für visuelle Effekte, Kamera, Ton und Tonschnitt. Schon in der ersten Traumszene zeigt der Film, dass er ein optischer Gaumenschmaus ist. Der Soundtrack zum Film ist ebenso Perfekt wie die Optik. Doch dieses Feuerwerk an Effekten muss man selbst gesehen haben. Fazit: Inception ist ein Film, dessen Idee grandios umgesetzt wurde. Mit einmaligen Effekten, einer Runde Spitzenschauspieler, bombigen Sound und einer komplizierten wie genialen Story ist es durchaus ein Film, der das Prädikat "besonders wertvoll" verdient hat. Doch der Film ist nicht perfekt. Man muss dem Film die ganze Zeit folgen, um nicht von der Story überrumpelt zu werden. Somit ist es kein Film, den man sich ansieht und währenddessen ein Sudoku macht, da man so keine Freude mit dem Film haben wird. Auch wurde häufig schon gesagt "der Film ist schlecht, da er viel zu kompliziert und die Handlung wirr und unsinnig ist". Dies kann ich nur verneinen. Der Film regt zum nachdenken an und ist in keinster Weise "unsinnig", sondern nur keiner dieser "0-Prozent-Hirn-100-Prozent-Action-und-schöne-Frauen"-Filme. Statt dessen bekommt man einen "100-Prozent-Hirn-100-Prozent-Action"-Film, der trotz seiner bahnbrechenden Story verkannt wird. Meiner Meinung nach: Ein Film, der die Latte für gute Filme deutlich anhebt und mit einmaliger Qualität ind Bild und Ton brilliert.

Un Blu-ray eccellente: la qualità video in 4K HDR è fantastica, colori vividi e dettagli nitidi, mentre l’audio è chiaro e pieno, davvero coinvolgente. Il packaging è semplice e classico, come ci si aspetta da un Blu-ray, ma l’esperienza complessiva di visione è ottima. Perfetto sia per collezionare che per guardare il film in alta qualità.