10 Awesome Action Movies That Didn't Need A Sequel, Remake Or Reboot

Unless they involve a billionaire running around dressed like a giant bat, Christopher Nolan has absolutely zero interest in making sequels to any of his movies. After earning almost $830m at the box office, receiving widespread critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for good measure, if almost anybody else had directed Inception then you can guarantee that Warner Bros. would have at least tried to franchise it.

While the filmmaker's upcoming and mystery-shrouded thriller Tenet bears some superficial similarities to Inception, a lot of Nolan's works tend to focus on mind-bending themes and the manipulation of time anyway, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that comparisons are being made.

Inception's seemingly open-ended conclusion still generates debate to this day, and the concept of high-tech spy thrillers set in the target's subconscious seems like an easy target to continue mining for sequels, but like all of Nolan's non-Batman output Dom Cobb and his team will find themselves the subjects of one movie and one movie only.