Inception

Impressions before seeing it
The trailers looked amazing, but were a little vague on the story, but that can be a good thing because trailers sometimes ruin the best parts.

How was it?
I want this review to be spoiler free, but for anyone who wants a clearer plot synopsis (if not, skip to the next paragraph): Inception is about a group of people who work in dreams and subconsciousness, designing and building dreamworlds so that they can lure people into them and unearth their valuable secrets hidden within, but someone comes to them with a proposal to commit inception, the process of planting an idea into one's subconscious so that they believe that idea is their own. That's the simple version, but I think it's more than the trailers tell you.

This is one of those movies that is smart enough to mess with your head. Not in a way that makes it confusing or hard to follow (unless you're not paying attention, or are an idiot), just in a way that makes you do a lot of thinking. As with Shutter Island, my mind was tossing a lot of theories out there, thinking there might be a plot twist ending, but let's just say this is not Shutter Island. The trailers might bring The Matrix to mind for some, but I would say Inception is ultimately more like eXistenZ, but you could easily draw comparisons to both.

Christopher Nolan is developing a reputation for "intelligent blockbusters", and that's exactly what this is given its amazing action sequences, special effects, and cast. There is some appropriately dreamlike imagery, mixing real world settings with surreal occurrences, just like dreams tend to do, and the editing was crucial in regards to tension due to a lot of things happening simultaneously, but it all worked perfectly. I also loved the idea of the world around your sleeping body having an effect on your dream, because dreams sometimes work that way, too.

Recommendation
I have no complaints about this movie, because it's pretty much everything a good movie should be. Unless you don't like it when movies make you think, you should find it enjoyable.