Parents guide

There is a mild kissing scene between Arthur and Ariadne. Nothing else happens.

One specific character shows a lot of cleavage by the dresses she wears throughout the movie

A woman shoots a man in the leg, and another man in the room shoots her and two other men.

A man runs through a crumbling building shooting several attackers in the beginning.

There's a shootout in a street when a freight train plows through several cars, and a group of men fire guns at a taxi and van full of people. The people return fire and escape, ands several attackers are bloodlessly shot and killed.

There's a long sequence where people raid a base in snowy mountains, and Two men fight and one is thrown off balcony, and he lands in a snowdrift and kills the other man. He proceeds to move around the base killing more men and placing charges, and he ultimately detonates them, causing a massive explosion.

A man knocks another man off a snowmobile.

There's a chase on a hill and several men chase other men on skis, firing guns at them, and a few men are knocked off their skis and roll down the hill, unconscious.

Several men fire at an abandoned building, and people inside return fire, and one man blows up an attacker with a large grenade launcher.

A woman throws herself off a ledge, but is not seen hitting the ground.

There's a car chase shown intermittently in the middle of the film, where several men chase a van and fire weapons at it. Several cars crash, and the van flips over but lands right side up, and it continues driving. The van ultimately goes over the side of a bridge when more men shoot at it, and lands in water.

A man fights another man in a hallway, though this is brief, and one of the men kills the other.

At least 8 hells, 2 uses of asshole, 2 damns, 6 uses of "Goddamn," 3 uses of "Jesus Christ," 2 of "Jesus" and "My God" and 1 use each of "For God's sakes" and "God."

A few uses of "hell", two uses of "ass" (one being "jackass"), one being "asshole" a few "damn"s and about 5 uses of "goddamn", plus one middle finger.

A few occasional uses of "shit", "crap" and "piss".

People drink wine and beer. Sedative medications and other mysterious concoctions are required to put people into these dreamlike states.

A character has lost his ability to dream normally, and so he repeatedly hooks himself up to delve into his own haunting dream world.

Inception is an intense movie. There are many deaths including a disturbing suicide, a high-stakes espionage plot that has an exceptionally intense ending and much more.

Some concepts in the movie are potentially derealizing.

This film has an intense atmosphere throughout. The second half of the film is especially intense.

A van drives off a bridge and slowly falls toward a river.

In a dream, people hold a woman while another woman walks up and stabs her. She wakes up before you can see any harm done. This scene is unexpected and can frighten some.

A woman shoots a man's leg to torture him.

A train unexpectedly crashes into a car with people in it.

A street starts exploding (in a dream).

The action is intense at times. People die (see violence/gore).

The concept of the dream-levels in the movie, and the fact that you might not be sure if the characters are dreaming or not, might frighten some viewers.