9.2 - you gotta be kidding me!

Rating: 6/10 (27 July 2010)

Just saw this movie - can't say I want my $6 back, but I'm glad it wasn't $7.
Christopher Nolan made a much better movie with far fewer resources when he made 'Memento'.
Paul Verhoven made the same movie 10 times better both in terms of plot, pacing, and action sequences in 'Total Recall'.
If you threw Memento, Total Recall, and The Matrix in a blender for a little while, this is what you would come up with. It's not a bad movie, but anyone with a pulse and half a brain could call the shocking surprise ending after watching the first 10 minutes - at least I did.
Mr. Nolan seems to be trying revisit the successes of yesteryear a la M. Night Shyamalan.
Indeed, he seems to be trailing back around to a 'dead wife' motif much as Tom "Dead or Dying Father" Cruise (Top Gun / Rain Man / Magnolia / A Few Good Men),