You Get What You Give

Rating: 9/10 (22 June 2001)

Your opinion of this movie will depend entirely on what kind of moviegoer you are. If you go to the movies to devote your entire attention to getting into and understanding the movie's world and characters, you are unlikely to have a more intense, rewarding experience. The other positive reviewers here have provided the necessary detail as to why.
OTOH, if you are one of these people that treats a movie as an interesting diversion from your inane conversation with your idiot friends, you are likely to never have a clue what is going on and will leave the theatre like you lead the rest of your life - wondering what happened. The negative reviewers here have provided the necessary detail supporting my view, as they cite "plot holes" that are not holes at all, but whose answer required a sufficiently long attention span to elude them.
***SPOILER ALERT As just one example, the money Leonard spends came from the drug deal he busted. But to know that you have to be able to collect that information and apply it to previous scenes, and that's just to much for some people. END SPOILER***
The only legitimate negative comment I can make is that the ending undoes too much of the plot, but not nearly so much as to ruin the experience. It just gives it a different spin. You will still feel for Leonard and his situation more than you've ever felt for a character in a film, provided of course you can keep your yapper shut and actually pay attention for a couple of hours. 9 out of 10.