Fight club meets the usual suspects?

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2001)

Fight club meets the usual suspects, well not really, comparing Memento to such excellent movies as Fight Club and the Usual Suspects, still wouldn't do it justice. Christopher Nolan has created a cinematic materpiece, a thriller, that puts you so close to the edge of your seat that at times you have to pick yourself off the ground. It may be a bold statement, and I am willing to take some heat for it, but the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, could get out his ball point(god rest his soul)and takes some note on Nolan's suspense filled story.
The story is about Lenny a man who has short term memory and uses poloroids, tattoo's and notes to remember what he is doing. What he knows for sure is someone raped and killed his wife, and he has clues in various places of his body to help him solve the crime. Anyway, what creates the great suspense in this movie is that we too experience a short term memory, and we are given the plot backwards. AT the beginning of the film Lenny has already found the killer, and we get to see what happens building up to the end,piece, by piece. It is very original, and I can guarantee that it will have a couple oscar nominations attached to its name a year from now. Well I will not bother trying to do this film any more justice by trying to explain it in this feeble review. I will just say this movie will blow you away. Nolan has broken many conventions with this movie most notably how to tell a good mystery something that has been lacking in hollywood since.....The Usual Suspects, oh did I mention this is better. Just go and see it, it will open your eyes, that is if you want them to be opened.