Every Cillian Murphy Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Returning to Christopher Nolan's Inception after all these years offers a striking reminder that, outside of Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard's doomed love story, Cillian Murphy is the emotional core of the story. 

As the young heir to a business empire overseen by his dying father, Murphy's role sets the drama of Inception in motion, and drives it forward with a quietly devastating tale of strained family and memories left buried. 

At once naive and heartbroken, arrogant and conflicted, Murphy captures an entire lifetime of resentment with fractional screentime, and in the final moments delivers Inception its most emotionally resonant farewell, threatening to steal the entire show.