Chris Nolan is one of my favorite modern directors. He tries great things in almost every movie he makes. Weather he succeeds or not, he always feels like a wizard, playing with our perception, and proving us that the perception makes the "truth". In Inception he tried the impossible: to build a story spanning different levels of consciousness. Technically it might be argued that he partially succeeded. He even succeeds suggesting how the perception modifies when changing the level of consciousness. But he fails to play with our own perception of the subject. Not quite the Nolan I was expecting. 9 for the inception, 6 for the story, 3 for the delivery.