Excellent, but the people who didn't love it have a point

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2010)

Inception is probably the best scifi since The Matrix. Maybe even better. There, I said it. The imagination and idea behind Inception are wonderful, and it was certainly executed near-flawlessly. However, it is a bit complex, especially with tons of different things going on at once. Personally, I didn't mind much, but it does get confusing. And there's an almost complete lack of an emotional plot. But that's what happens when scifi goes mainstream. People and critics used to brilliant conventional movies notice the plot holes, crave for the missing details, and sometimes find it all overwhelming.
While the hype is too much, Inception is the first movie I've seen in the theater that I recommended to everyone I knew. Avatar was fun, but it was easy to forget once I saw it twice. Inception was different, exciting, and just plain brilliant. But it's not changing movies with breakthrough VFX or new ideas (at least I hope people won't try to copy it), and it's not the best movie ever (Dr. Strangelove keeps that title in my book), but it did restore my hope that there are some great ideas ready to be made into a movie, whether Leo DiCaprio planted them or not.