either you'll like the stars or you'll be fighting back sleep...

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2003)

Whoever said Robin Williams couldn't be the bad guy, or Al Pacino feel deep-weary when faced with a known murderer?
MEMENTO's SUNDANCE-acclaimed director Christopher Nolan proves you wrong, and his bringing together three ACADEMY winners (Pacino, Williams and Swank) uses flashbacks and lack of sleep as a fortunately-fictional obstacle to a detective's (Pacino) attempts to get rid of a murderer (Williams) tooled with blackmail.
I lost a couple of scenes of this movie as I was lured into sleep by a long and tiring conversation between Pacino and Williams on a ferry, and sometime else... but I couldn't wait to see if Pacino-fan Swank would get rid of proof of his having killed his partner.
Maybe the quite well-adapted musical score by David Julyan (Memento, The Following,...) is a little bit too heavy but it accompanies the sleepless-state of detective Pacino who surely contributes much to the experience of inspector Ellie Burr (Swank).
Overall, if you're out to meet stars of different generations gathered to boost a scenario which maybe nowadays only Soderbergh could save , then get going, but if you loved the Hitchcock movies in which unknown criminals were discovered at the end, then try something else.