Inception

 

The very mixed reviews made me hesitant, but Z insisted I MUST see it, that it would be my favorite movie EVER when I'd seen it.  Well , not, quite, but I don't quite understand the animadversions.  It was enormously clever, consistently exciting (except for a certain amount of boring shoot-kill-blowup stuff in the virtual or oneiric Alps that was overlong and not very purposeful -- it seemed to resemble those ballets inserted into opera in the 1840s because French audiences demanded them.  ...