There are countless movies that hinge on an obsessively detailed master plot, whether it be the ultimate bank heist or a plan to make Chris Rock president. But sometimes the characters responsible for that plot throw caution to the wind for no apparent reason, endangering (or flat-out ruining) the plans they had so intricately laid and leaving the rest of us to wonder what the hell they were thinking about. It makes for great drama, but baffling logic.

5 Inception -- Cobb Blows the Mission for No Reason

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Inception is about international fugitive Dom Cobb (Leo DiCaprio) hacking into other people's dreams in order to steal and/or implant information, which the movie explains by finding hilarious ways for Cobb and his team to lie down and sleep next to their targets while connected to a forest of complicated electrodes and somehow still be incognito.



"Just having a nice sleep EKG, nothing strange here."

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The movie focuses on Cobb's big final heist, wherein he and his operatives must reach the deepest level of a tycoon's subconscious and implant an idea. This is actually the least complicated part of the film.

Throughout the movie, the big problem lurking below the surface is that Cobb is haunted by the memories of his dead wife, Mal, which threatens to screw up the whole operation. To make sure this doesn't happen, much of the final plan is hidden from Cobb himself. So Ellen Page's character, Adriadne, knows a way into the mind fortress of the tycoon, but Cobb doesn't. It's for their own protection -- if Cobb knows, his memories of Mal will fuck everything up.



Phantom dream women, right?

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The Scene:

Once Cobb and his Dream Bandits make it inside the tycoon's subconscious, they get intercepted by a bunch of dudes on snowmobiles trying to keep them out of the mountain bunker where the tycoon's innermost secrets are stored (because without question, this is how everyone's mind is organized). With everything going to hell, Cobb demands that Adriadne tell him the one thing he can't be allowed to know: the way into the complex. This exchange happens:

ARIADNE: I don't think I should tell you. If Mal finds out ...

COBB: We don't have time for this! Did he add anything?

ARIADNE: He added an air duct system that can cut through the maze.

COBB: Good. [points to her radio] Explain it to them.