However, the task that Saito (played by Ken Watanabe) offers Cobb is of a slight modification to his usual scope. Instead of stealing an idea, Saito wants Cobb and Arthur to plant an idea in Robert Fischer’s mind (played by Cillian Murphy), the next heir to an energy conglomerate, through another psychological process called ‘inception’. If this idea to break up his family company succeeds, Watanabe's empire expands, and Cobb — an international fugitive sought by extradition authorities because he is being suspected of killing his wife— can go home to America and his beloved kids.

It would be a frightening thought to be aware that other people could literally intrude our dreams, let alone manipulate our sleeping life and implanting ideas in our subconscious states, making us believe that they are our very own.

I love how Mal (pronounced More, and played by Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard), the untrustworthy femme fatale, and a woman with deep and complicated ties with Cobb, eerily weaves in and out into dreams where she is not wanted. The remaining of the cast, Ellen Page (the pregnant teenager in Juno), Tom Hardy and Dileep Rao, also put on superb performances as the architect, the muscle man, and the chemist respectively.

The set pieces in the movie are mesmerizing. From the opening scene in the Japanese fortress, to the war zone, to the streets of Paris and Los Angeles, and to the snow-capped mountains, the transitions are all just so seamless. What was more mind-blowing was how the Paris streets were able to roll up and over itself like some sort of tapestry.