An Honest Review

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2016)

It is so hard to write honest reviews about Nolan films without coming under the radar and getting attacked by Nolan fans. It's an odd bunch of people, not unlike the TEA Party in the US, where any criticism is pounced on with uncompromising gusto? "You're an idiot if Taxi Driver is your favorite film, Nolan didn't direct it!!!!" Fortunately Memento is one of his movies where I can safely say it's worth 10 out of 10 without feeling like I am selling out to they sycophants.
For starters Guy Pearce does an amazing job and that is generally not the case in his movies. The Hurt Locker, The Proposition, L.A. Confidential, there are very few movies where he was actually believable in the part. So we have that and it generally takes a competent director to bring it out of him.
Then the plot itself, what is it? Comedic mystery? Would that be a decent enough title for it? It weaves itself in and out of the story, taking time to use Leonard's peculiar memory to it's best comedic effect.
The plot heavily revolves around his extremely short term memory and, because of that we get to see the movie through his eyes and all the complications that come with it, both in their most brutal and their most brutally funny as he attempts to solve his wife's murder and gets exploited along the way.
It's just a great film, funny and violent, like I love them.