interesting, but ultimately confusing

Rating: Null/10 (17 February 2002)

Last night, I saw Memento (after hearing how good it was from about ten different people). To be honest, it was a little disappointing. Although the story was interesting and, without a doubt, unique, the fact that they played the story out backwards, and expected the viewer to draw a conclusion about the motives or qualities of any of the characters was a bit to ask. I would have preferred that they developed individual story lines in larger blocks, as opposed to jumping between time periods, non-descript hotel rooms, and replaying scenes over again as if to remind the watcher what had happened. Even now as I try to put my thoughts into words, the very nature of the movie makes that difficult. It's perhaps something I need to see again, just to attain any understanding about it. All in all, not bad, but definitely not one of my favorites.