I saw Inception on the opening weekend, and found it thoroughly engaging and intelligent. It seemed like there was an open ended ending but the rest was simple enough. It almost seemed like a film that there was no need to review, it was taut, action packed, twisted, but dreaming in a dream about a dream sort of thing is not something I thought I could write a lot about. I had been keeping my head in the sand and avoiding Inception reviews, but now as I caught them I saw furious debate. Critics loved it, hated it, loved other critics who loved it, hated other critics who loved it and so on and so forth. The theories came pouring out of the woodwork and blew my "OK I know what was going on" smugness out of the water. UNLESS one believes that the complexities are being generated by the viewers, and they do not match the maker's intentions.
