This really needed an "other" option, because there are a lot of good heist movies out there. Inside Man and Dog Day Afternoon are two good ones that come to mind that are not on that list. That said, I voted Reservoir Dogs out of the ones up there.
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Ocean's 11 is the best one to me (although it is tied with Ocean's 13 as my IMO favorite of the series)
Probably followed very closely by Inception and then a distant third would be Entrapment and distant fourth would be The Italian Job
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I guess Inception would technically be a heist film, but the term generally refers more to people stealing something physical like a big pile of money or a priceless object. I would classify Inception more along the lines of sci-fi.
Also, Goodfellas can be classified as a heist film.
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Inception is basically a rip-off of The Cell (2000; Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn). The plot of that movie was also a race agianst time in which they had to invade a guy's mind in order to obtain information and was full of fantasy landscapes and surreal settings--and that movie has ten years on Inception. Also, The Cell has a stronger crime theme than Inception.
In my opinion, Inception is popular for the same reason as Avatar: for its visuals, not for its story or narrative. Avatar was basically a space-fantasy version of Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai, or any other white-man-sides-with-the-natives-against-evil-invaders movie.
Inception doesn't strike me as a heist movie because they are implanting an idea, not stealing. They do refer to stealing ideas as what they normally do, but the main storyline is not about stealing.
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That they were actually planting an idea into someone's mind differentiates it pretty heavily from The Cell. The "inception" is what Inception is essentially about, the existence of individuals entering people's minds to steal information merely sets the scene. I'd also be surprised if anybody viewed it as being primarily of merit for anything other than its storyline.
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