9 Movies You Didn't Realise Stole Their Endings

8. Trance Stole... The Ambiguous Ending From Inception

The Ending: Trance is Danny Boyle's post-Olympic Opening Ceremony detox, throwing a bunch of violence, dream sequences and trippy narratives at the screen. Some of it sticks, some of it really doesn't. What initially seems like the usual art heist gone wrong turns into a film questioning reality and memory with an incredibly convoluted ending.

The general gist is that Rosario Dawson has hypnotised James McAvoy into stealing a painting for her, all the while bringing Vincent Cassel along for the ride. The final moments see Cassel given the option to forget this whole thing, with the film cutting out before he makes his decision.

Where You Saw It First: The umming ahhing of the final shot is clearly trying to conjure up a similar emotion to the spinning top at the end of Inception.

That ending, however, felt more set-up, with the question of the world's reality pushing much of the movie's emotional beats. Instead of prompting heated discussion and motivating an immediate desire to rewatch, Trance's ending just feels frustratingly tacked on.

In fact, most of Trance feels a bit like a Boyle take on some of Nolan's more abstract ideas and for most of its runtime it works, but the ending skirts a little too close to imitation.