Inception
The Plot: Leo is a new kind of thief - one who steals information from dreams. Taking subjects into a dream state and entering their mind, he can trick them into revealing all sorts of trade secrets. That's called "extraction". But then he's confronted with a new challenge, much more difficult than extraction - inception. To plant a thought such that the victim thinks that he or she has thought it, accepts it and then changes an entire life. In Summary: Special effects that are cool, many in the same way The Matrix was cool, but a tool to the plot. Leo is good, as he usually is, and the supporting cast fill their roles well too. The Casablanca Connection : Rick and Leo both can't return to the US because of a shady deed in the past. You never see Rick commit a crime in Casablanca - his opaque past is assumed to conceal malice, but it never needs to be detailed, and perhaps is never much of anything other than a few notes in a Gestapo notebook. Yet he manages