The problem is more interesting than the movie

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2002)

Every time I praised a movie this year, someone would tell me "but you haven't seen 'Memento'". Well, now I've seen it. Firstly, I note this site, (but not the box), identifies this as a "2000" film. This would explain why it was snubbed for the 2001 Oscars. Beyond that, It is not the best film I've seen from 2001, ("In the Bedroom" is). It's certainly an interesting film, (and I don't mean that to be the left handed compliment it normally is), as the hero has a most interesting problem. He has to find the killer of his wife despite his loss of short term memory, which he combats by making notes, taking pictures and even tattooing things he doesn't want to forget onto his body. It would be a great premise for a TV show. But it makes for an emotionally antiseptic movie, hardly comparable to "A Beautiful Mind', "Monster's Ball" or "In the Bedroom", films that were much more emotionally involving. The hero of this doesn't know what's happened and so his personality lacks depth. And he turns out not to have been much of a hero anyway. I like a movie I'm still thinking about days later. I've forgotten this one already.