Truly a Movie Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2006)

The first time I saw this movie was with my buddies. I had heard it was a good movie, but no one else heard about it, so I thought I'd give it a try. Little did we know that this movie would change the way we saw movies. Usually we discuss during movies because they usually aren't worth listening to, but in the first 20 minutes of watching Memento, we stopped it probably about ten times just to figure out what was going on. In watching this movie, we had done something that we had never done in the past, which was really study the movie backwards and forwards. We would find ourselves screaming, "Did you see that, did you see that?!?" Then we would rewind and watch it again. The movie's "backwards" style and complex plot is unique to any other thriller-mystery title in existence. The acting is a little dry-except for Joe Pantoliano, who was my favorite- but the action and marvelous storyline makes up for it. This is by far Christopher Nolan's best picture (although "The Prestige" looks pretty amazing right now). You will never get tired of this movie, and you will always find something new every time you see it.