Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2001)

This is probably the best movie I've ever seen. I don't know anything about Film Noir and whatnot, but this was a really brilliant film. Some people will say it's just a regular old movie told backwards to hide a bad script, but I don't think so. I agree that it would be just an average movie if told forwards; I think that's part of the point. Seeing it through the eyes of a man with no short term memory is what's really interesting. I think if it was told forwards it would've been more of a comedy; everything's being spelled out for Leonard but he can't remember a thing. We'd probably feel like most of the other characters feel. As it is, we're just as confused as Leonard, and it's great. This was a blissfully original movie; I give it a 10.