So is this Mr. Nolan's free pass for making nothing but wholly watchable and enjoyable movies for the past 10 years? The tone in your review is the exact tone I recall putting on when I was six years old and got an 8 pack of socks from my grandmother for Christmas.

I have a feeling I will come out of the theater saying "I liked it a bunch, I enjoy a very mild mindfuck, but it had way too much DiCaprio and not enough Murphy." I hope I am wrong, but really, I don't think"enough Cillian Murphy" is possible. Still looking forward to this.

This is one of the few times I disagree with Lindy. This film is brilliant, up there with Memento and The Dark Knight. DiCaprio and his chin pubes were great in it, but the real standout is Tom Hardy.

I walked in thinking, "The ending will probably be that they were in a dream the whole time or something." And while that could be one way to interpret it, almost everyone I talked to had their own spin on what the ending and the whole movie meant.

This movie was really thought-provoking. The biggest question it raised for me was: of the movies Michael Caine's appeared in, which is worse, Inception or Jaws 4?

Tom Hardy? THAT Tom Hardy? Oh goodie, now I can be a *professed* fan of the guy who I have found absurdly compelling through several different projects while never realizing it was the same guy. What a relief!

Funny footnote: Hardy is going to be the new Mad Max. Seriously.

Oh, and Inception is excellent. Maybe not Memento excellent, but certainly The Dark Knight excellent--bigger than anything else out there, and smarter than anything that big has any right to be. Hardy and Gordon-Levitt are certainly highlights, as far as performances are concerned.

Sure, Inception may not be the best movie ever made, but it is 1000 times better than your average summer blockbuster. Nolan is a consistently good director. Leonardo DeCaprio is a good actor (although I agree he'd be better off without the skanky face whiskers). Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues to impress. The whole movie is a delicious mind-fuck. The special effects were interesting, and not your average CGI.

Well worth the ticket price, which is more than I can say for just about everything else in the theaters right now.

Liked. But, the concept that planting an idea in someone's head and making them think it was theirs is novel---WTF? Haven't they been exposed to any advertising in the past 50 years?

This movie sucked ass. If you're going to make a fake-science movie like this it simply must maintain strict internal coherence. Otherwise it's just dumb. That's why The Matrix and Memento were so good; they laid out the rules of the world and then they followed them. This film totally failed at that.

@11: Rottentomatoes.com has a whole set of non-snarky, overly earnest film critics.

Definitely I would summarize this as a 10-year anniversary Matrix special/exegesis/remake.