It has received so many positive reviews because nobody dares say it was made based on very illiterate understanding of human mind and dream psychology. Similar to the story of the silly naked king who thought he wore the most beautiful dress that only wise people could see, and so no one dared say they could not see any dress on him! OK, so we use a briefcase containing a large button and a few wires to enter anyone's dream and if you have an architect with you, the whole thing will be somehow just fine, and all these details that happen there are somebody's projection or memory, or ... but don't worry because someone will tell you what they are! Not enough? OK, you will be able to use the dream version of that briefcase machine to still move one layer deeper, and go to the dreams of a dreaming person?! How stupid that this get? Seeing all these positive reviews I just realize the brilliance of the naked king with invisible clothes to stupid people. I am not against novel concepts, Matrix was such a novel one, but inception is a mockery of science, human mind, dream psychology, and more! 4 stars only for the special effects.