Not as good as "Memento"

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2003)

Actually, not close to "Memento" at all. I liked Al's performance, weary and with a week's worth of luggage underneath each eyeball, but Al, we need to do something with your hair. I found my concentration on Al's hair spoiled the movie for me. For one, it varied in colour a lot, salt and pepper, then more salt, then back to jet black, then teetering to a brownish red. And the hair pieces were another story, moving around his forehead in various degrees of thickness but mostly good matches for his vari-coloured hair. And he is getting a bit long in the tooth to believe the sprinting runs and underwater near-drowning scenes he has. The scenery was stunning. Hilary's performance was great as she slowly starts to understand what is really going on. Martin Donovan did not creep me out for once. The plot was great but suffered from the old cliches of senseless chasing and lots of shooting. It should have been more intellectual in concept but I guess we have to please the masses. And nobody can do weirdly awful like Robin Williams. What a gifted performer both in this and in One Hour Photo. 6 out of 10. Not as good as I expected and I would love to see the Norwegian film on which it is based.