I cannot phrase it better, so I will quote Rex Reed who called Inception's storyline "prattling drivel." A friend claimed Inception is a "thinking person's movie", but a thinking person will realize that it is only masquerading as a thinking person's movie. At bottom, intellectually, "there is no there there." Add to this that someone clearly believed the film needed to be pumped up with overwrought drama to qualify it as a "summer blockbuster." I couldn't wait for it to end, and when it did, the intrusiveness of the loud, schlocky music over the closing credits seemed to crystallize all the incipient negative feelings I had been having throughout the movie. I hope that this director will go back to doing smaller films that do not stretch his concepts beyond what they can support.