Afterlight vs Inception
Inception has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 3.8/10 for Afterlight). Afterlight is the shorter watch at 1h 5m compared with 2h 28m. Inception is the older of the two (2010 against 2025). Both are science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Afterlight
Inception| Afterlight | Inception | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 3.8/10 | ★ 8.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2010 |
| Length | 1h 5m | 2h 28m |
| Genres | Science Fiction | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Alison Kohlhardt, Andrew McGee | Christopher Nolan |
| Main cast | Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ellise Chappell, Anna Fraser, Linda-Jean Barry, Clive Wood | Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Michael Caine, Leonardo DiCaprio |
Synopsis
Afterlight
In a future shaped by war, AI, and fractured timelines, five interconnected sci-fi stories explore humanity’s fight for connection, survival, and meaning across time and space.
Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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