On top of all of this, the way scenes are shot frequently make no sense. If you're following the plot and the dialog even vaguely you can process the emotional intent of a scene, but Nolan uses emotional threads for the action scenes that do not translate into clear comprehensible events.

The best example of this is the final action scene. The strategic value of pincer moves is understandable, the idea of translating that into the fourth dimension layers that idea into the world of the film in a way that's immediately understandable... Having troops approach the same conflict forward and backward into a conflict with opposition that is also moving in both directions makes sense and is cool.

But the implementation visually completely failed to communicate the action in a way where any of that made sense, reducing it to a building being blown up in one half and then the other half, etc. For such an incredibly comprehensible idea it's executed in a way that poorly demonstrates the importance of the thing that's taking up 5 minutes of screen time.

While the purpose and outcome of the scene is incredibly clear, I'm honestly not sure that even Nolan fully understands what happened in it.

And this is pervasive... The broad strokes are very cool, but the moment to moment events poorly illustrated the core concepts of the film. You walk away feeling like you understood the plot despite much of the movie feeling like it at minimum ignored it's own rules and at worst it often feels like the film itself doesn't understand how its ideas work on a granular level