steveportee wrote:The whole final sequence seems kinda FUBAR, the rules for kicks seem to be you get kicked by someone in a higher level than you.

This is never explicitly stated in the movie.

Many hold the opinion, even on this forum, that Eames was never going to blow any charges at the third level, and that it made little sense to because he was never going to kick anyone out of anything as per their plans. I don't have time to respond to your whole post now, but I will later tonight ...

Why then does Cobb specifically mention the second kick as being when the van hits the water? Timing. Secondly, are you sure that Yusuf mentions that only the sensation of falling would provide a kick? I remember him distinctly mentioning inner ear function being unimpaired, which means that any su...

Yesterday I basically spent an entire day in the movie theater with this movie. It was intense. It originally started cause me and a friend wanted to see it a second time. I had read on here about the immigration stamp and went in looking for it. I was thinking along your lines kind of, but when I s...

I wish the last two matrix movies were just a bad dream and one day I'm going to wake up to a couple of good movies.

The problem being they were planning on using the explosions in Level 3 before even proposing going to Limbo. Also the movie's definition of kicks is somewhat loose. Notice when Adriane proposes going to Limbo, she suggests using the defibbrilators as a kick when the shock should certainly not work...

And I will, respectfully, of course, disagree COMPLETELY with this. Thanks for being respectful. I haven't yet read your post, but most people who have a disclaimer like this one, usually aren't. Here's hopin. The explosion did NOT send them back from Level 3 to Level 2. Watch again the next time y...

i see thanks but how come he can't remember what he was telling saito if he just washed up a few minutes ago? My guess is that the process of dying in a dream and not waking up is brutal on the mind. They both have no recollection of any other reality besides limbo until they see each other and wor...

Check out the part I've highlighted from your post. I also mentioned this in my previous post. As per the "definition" of what constitutes a "kick" from earlier in the film, a "kick" is given to a person in the level before the dream from which they are being awakened. You can't kick yourself or ki...

They were in the same place. Its safe to assume that Mal captured Fischer and brought him to a place Cobb knew and would find in order to bargain with Cobb and make him stay with her. When you die and go to limbo, you wash up on the shores completely delirious so Saito wouldn't have had the right mi...