Christopher Nolan's "Inception" has been positioned for a while as the summer 2010 movie for which we've all been waiting. And it is startlingly good, even set against a background as dim as 2010's big studio films. It's an expensive, expansive emotional film, a nested set of tricks and stratagems with parallel plotlines leaping tracks to affect each other. It's a can-we-do-it caper film combined with a moody, brooding examination of the mysteries of the human heart. It is full of nods to other films, and to filmmaking, but also a uniquely personal work. It has all of Nolan's strengths, and some of his weaknesses, and it is undeniably his. It is the most exciting studio action film since 1999's "The Matrix," and has a slightly suspect similarity to the Wachowskis' brawny brain-bender. It is a $160 million action film about loss and regret, and it is exciting in part because of its flaws.

All you need to know about "Inception" on a plot level is that in a future five minutes from now (or, for that matter, now), a high-tech device allows collective shared dreaming. Hook everyone up to the box and you're in one person's dream. There are rules, and there are dangers, and you don't travel without baggage. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a professional dream thief who assembles teams to steal secrets out of slumbering heads. Lately, his subconscious break-ins are being disrupted by his own manifestation of a memory-vision of his ex-wife Mal (Marion Cotillard). A wealthy client, Saito (Ken Watanabe), hires Dom to pull a job that is exactly like the other dream-heists he's pulled and absolutely unlike the other dream-heists he's pulled, with the promise of the one thing in the world Dom wants most as the reward for a job well done.

tl;dr Metamorphman loves it.