The major thing good about the movie is the way it was shown.

Rating: 7/10 (15 April 2001)

(some SPOILERS in this review). The major thing that makes this movie really interesting and exciting is the way it is presented, a reverse timeline. Basically, the first scene in the movie (besides the black and white scenes) is the last scene if the movie were in chronological order, and the last scene would have been the first (after the black and white stuff). It's a more extreme version of what Tarantino did for `Pulp Fiction', however that movie had a lot more going for it where this one doesn't If the movie had been shown with the correct timeline (and if they had moved the final twist scene to the end of the film, which would have been very easy to do) then I think the movie would have lost a lot of appeal.
First, it would have removed most of the questions in the movie. Most of the mystery is about `what happened to that ?', or `when did that happen?'. By showing the movie backward you see what happened to people and then you see how it happened. This is one of the most interesting things in the film, which would have not been there if it had been shown in chronological order. Secondly, if the movie were shown with the correct timeline the plot holes in the movie would be much more apparent. For example, Natalie supposedly first meets Leonard behind the bar. The next time she meets him in the bar (right after she meets him behind the bar, but in the movie this scene is right before the other one) she quickly plays some pranks on him because of his mental condition (he has sort term memory loss Â– which she apparently has heard about before although I don't think she had met him before). Then, a few minutes later (which is a few minutes earlier in the film) she invites a guy she basically just met to stay at her house for `a few days'. If the movie were shown in chronological order this would have been somewhat confusing, just like it is if you think about it after you see all the scenes in the movie. I'm not saying that the movie has only one or two things going for it. It has some very good acting in it, some very interesting scenes which take advantage of Leonards unusual mental condition, but the best thing about it and the thing which makes the movie so mysterious, creative, and entertaining, is that fact that it's shown backwards.