Nice looking VFX for its time.

But pointless, because they just serve to hide that the story is actually pretty dumb.

Never understood the hype around the complexity of the story or the need to draw maps how it all fits together. It's pretty standard stuff if you've seen one or the other TNG episode. What's confusing are the special effects because in the dream world they don't have to make physical sense anymore. That's what maybe causes a feeling of disorientation. And honestly this plot is so empty, that it feels it was written around the idea of creating special effects of this kind.

I think people pretend to like this movie because all the eye candy makes it look like there should be more to the plot, and people don't want to admit that they could find anything deeper in it. So they make excuses about the complexities and great visuals and add meaning to unimportant scenes so keep the feeling alive that this is really deep stuff, because everybody else also says it's deep , so nobody wants to be the dumb guy that doesn't get it. But imma say it: there's next to nothing deep about this.