Nolan is a filmmaker who actually never cared for mimetic, emotional and ethical honesty, and it seems that for the last couple of years with every new movie he's been sinking deeper into pure escapism - a tendency culminating in "Inception", an epitome of what might be called postmodern pseudo-art-for-pseudo-art's-sake.

Nolan's works are known to be structurally sophisticated. The question is : Who needs another structurally sophisticated action strip masquerading as a cinematic essay on human nature, ethics, philosophy ... ? Many of us seem to do, judging by this site's reviews. In the end, we get what we deserve, thanks to Mr. Nolan, who is the real Joker here, playing a cat-and-mouse game with audience all over the world. Although there's at least one crucial difference between him and his character : he wouldn't burn the stack of money that "The Dark Knight" earned him.