With the massive success of the Batman franchise, writer/director Christopher Nolan can basically write his own ticket in Hollywood. And that’s exactly what he did – he wrote and directed the film Inception as his follow-up project to The Dark Knight. I didn’t know much about Inception before I saw the trailer… and I still don’t know much. It seems like it’s one part The Matrix and one part Nightmare on Elm Street. The line “Wake me up!” seems terrifying. What. The. Hell?

Watch Leo DiCaprio become the Morphius to his assistant, Ellen Page’s Neo, as he and his well dressed team of brain-busters attempt to rob your mind. The latest Christopher Nolan Inception trailer is out.

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a powerful CEO, Page as his assistant, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a khaki suited bad-ass and Ken Watanabe as the bad guy. The basic plot is being heavily guarded and all imdb has to say about the picture is that, “A CEO-type becomes involved in a blackmailing scandal.”

But from the trailer I think it’s safe to say that this blackmailing is at least happening from inside someone’s thoughts, because “your mind is the scene of the crime.” Also, is Page screaming “Wake me up!” at one point?

Out in theaters July 16.

[From io9]

Everyone is like “oh, it’s so avant-garde and trippy” but it really does some like the premise is artsy-fartsy Nightmare on Elm Street. Oh, our nightmares come true! I don’t know about you people, but I’ve never had a nightmare that I’m falling in beautiful slow motion into a bathtub. I have nightmares where I’m being chased by a masked man trying to inject with me with something. I know, I know. It’s all very Freudian, and the needle is a penis, et cetera. It would still make a better a movie than this water-logged mess.

Of course, it’s possible I’m being too harsh… it could be cool. Maybe.