Minorly disappointing - SPOILERS

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2001)

I walked into the theater thinking that this would be the best movie I would see in a long time, given its current rank on imdb at #9. Wow I thought. This would be a pleasure. Instead, I walk out of the theater pondering why on earth it got voted so high, versus spending time pondering the intricacies of the movie itself.
Let me explain. The movie has a lot of inconsistencies (other reviewers call it "cheating" by the Director) in terms of how long Shelby's new mind can *remember* new events (sometimes it's very short, sometimes it takes a while), Natalie's bogus character and ridiculous emphatic role in this movie, no explanation how Leonard gets money each day to pay for everyday living expenses, no explanation why Leonard doesn't track each day that passes in a hard copy calendar (he has a watch, doesn't he?), no explanation why he didn't record the name of each person he killed immediately after it happened, no explanation why he didn't have a picture of Teddy after the murder of the first John G., instead Teddy had a picture of Leonard all happy and bloody from the incident.
Incredulous. Disappointing, but entertaining nonetheless. My rating: 7.5.