Best Original Movie Since the start of the Millenium

Rating: 9/10 (4 April 2003)

Memento is truly an awsome movie, one of the best i have ever seen and completely original. This is a movie which you have to sit down and watch and not pause it or turn it off or fall asleep & especially not watch while you are drunk or stoned. The film follows Leonard (Guy Pearce) a regular guy from San Francisco trying to find out who raped & murdered his wife. One problem. He has a short term memory loss. Solution. He uses tattoo's & photo's to remember certain things. Ie. where he is staying, his car, the people he knows. The film itself goes backwards and forwards. Your probably saying what the hell is this guy talking about. Well in the movie there are colour scenes & black & white scenes. The black & white scenes are going forward & they are before Leonard has found the person who raped & murdered his wife. The colour scenes are going backwards so right at the start we see Guy Pearce blow Joe Pantolianos brains out (don't worry this isn't a spoiler as it happens right at the start) then we see a black and white scene then we see the scene before Pearce shot Pantoliano and how it got to the first scene and so fourth throughout the movie. Christopher Nolan has just done something i would like to do and that is to breakout through writing & directing one of the greatest movies in the history of film & have it shown. The performances in this film are brilliant from Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano & Carrie-Anne Moss. The script is bursting with originality and is a must see movie for anyone who enjoys a good movie. Don't waste money in renting it, BUY IT! RIGHT NOW! because i can assure you, you won't be dissapointed. 10/10