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Memento yes, Inception definitely no. The worst experience I've had in a cinema.

It's been too long since I watched Inception, just for some reason only remember the first half of the movie being good. I was in middle school at the time, so... I'll rewatch it.

There's a lot of problems, but the main one is that it just is a pile of arbitrary rules that all the characters just constantly explain to one another.

Imagine the first third of The Matrix was cut and you just start with Morpheus explaining it all to Neo. That's Inception. And on top of that, it's not even a particular complicated idea: it's just Russian doll dreams.

It's kind of a reimagining of Paprika (2006), just dumbed down and with lots of action.

I don't see much similarity with Paprika aside from the idea of sharing dreams

Almost exactly first half of Inception is the setup and worldbuilding before the actual main heist begins. So that could explain why.

There are a lot of movies where the world-building is better than the actual plot. Harry Potter 1 for example. Or TV shows where the pilot and first few episodes have actual plot before it becomes filler.

My argument is that the world being built is uninspiring, and the endless, arbitrary rules of the world are communicated in clumsy ways.

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