Review of "INCEPTION"

INCEPTION:

The ability to read a person's dreams and even to share dreams with others has become commonplace, but our hero, Dom Cobb, has techniques for implanting dreams inside someone without their knowing.  To induce the heir of a corporate empire to dismantle that empire, Dom arranges a complicated scheme of a dream within a dream within a dream (and then there's a fourth level), all the while fighting a memory-construction of his wife who had killed herself years ago.

The director shifts from reality to dream and from one dream to another without any indication of transition, which makes it hard to follow at first, but once you recognize the shifts, the movie is easy to understand.

There is lots of interesting action, plot developments and characters.  The music isn't dull, but it is forgettable.

In some ways, I think the movie tries too hard to be profound.  The ending is ambiguous, but if you're interested, you can read a discussion about it here - http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/3/

I found several plot inconsistencies--for example, people have abilities in one dream but not another when it might interfere with the plot-- but no major plot flaws.

Rating - ++++ it gets your pulse up as much as a run