Amazing and Ingenious, and soon as it ends you will want to watch it again!

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2002)

Wow, i'd heard a lot about this film before i got in on DVD and it was even better than it was hyped. Not is all as it seems and can ultimately be interpreted in different ways by the viewer. The story is told in both chronological (B&W) and backwards (colour) order with these two meeting at the end of the film. The viewer is able to empathize with Leonards condition because although we start the film at the end of the chronological order of events we do not know what has preceded. The story unfolds as we see the preceding situations. This film is to be watched more than once and, just like Fight Club, you will spot things early in the film you would have missed first viewing. This film had me thinking about it days (well weeks) after seeing it, and any film that achieves that can't be bad!
**SPOILERS** After countless viewings there is still a sense of ambiguity of what actually happened and because we are seeing essentially the same way as the protagonist we may never know. After reading comments on the message board it seems that people are split over what actually happened to Leonards wife, whether she was killed during the incident or whether Leonard inadvertently caused her death with insulin. **END OF SPOILERS**
9/10. Ingenious piece of filmmaking.