The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Inception was released in some theaters with Inglourious Basterds last Friday, and we’ve got the one minute clip.

The film is based on “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind,” and the rumored plot says,

“Inception is about entering peoples’ minds/dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve/plant information.”

Those things could well hold true, and the ‘your mind is the scene of the crime’ tagline suggests that more planting info will be done than retrieving. After seeing this teaser I expect The Matrix will be brought up fairly frequently. Here we see a brief fight scene in what appears to be a hotel corridor, with the participants bouncing all over the walls and ceiling. And in general, a lack of solid grounding and perspective is what characterizes the teaser. There’s a reason that spinning top was used for the initial tease on Inception’s website.

Inception features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jacob, a CEO-type, Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose, Public Enemies) as his wife, Ellen Page (Juno) as a young college grad student named Ariadne, who is also DiCaprio’s sidekick, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Arthur, an associate working for DiCaprio. Ken Watanabe will play the film’s villain, a man named Saito, who is blackmailing Leonardo DiCaprio’s character. Tom Hardy (Bronson) plays Eames, a member of DiCaprio’s team. Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Sunshine) plays Fischer and Michael Caine is also involved.

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