Excellent Top Notch Film--A lot of Undeserved Hating Going On Here

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2001)

I am truly baffled at the number of people who gave this film a bad review simply because they were "confused", "lost", and especially "didn't understand the ending." Duh-- that's the point of a thriller, you are supposed to be confused. And with a great thriller--you shouldn't be able to put together each & every detail. Part of the beauty of that is that it leads to many, many different conclusions & possibilities.
This film was one of the few films in the last several years to actually be DIFFERENT, with a storyline that grips you & will not let go. The reverse order of the movie is not gimmicky, it is an integral part of the story (i.e., the audience feels what the lead character is feeling.) Several people commented that they didnt understand comparisons to "Usual Suspects" and "Sixth Sense"---the similarity is that everything you assumed to be true the entire movie turns out not to be true in such a way that 99.9% of audiences would never guess.
The acting was very good here, but I also haven't heard enough about the brilliance of the screenwriting itself. The dialogue was insightful and many sentences were just so powerful that just made me stop and say "wow. that's deep."
Great & unique movie, you have to be a person with a somewhat analytical mind to sort through all the data presented, but also be a very patient person. I think people who are impatient will just get fed up & quit on the movie.
I can't wait to see Chris Nolan's next film. It just intrigues me to no end how he could even come up with such an original & very powerful story.