This film is haunting me!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2001)

I went to see this movie in NYC after seeing only a headline in Time-Out NYC. I think I had become numbed to movies after seeing the usual predictable Hollywood trash such as What lies beneath, Erin Berkovich (or whatever), Patriot, etc. This movie riveted me. I haven't seen such a wonderful movie since The Ninth Gate. I am surprised to see it being compared to Fight Club, a movie that I hated.
Memento combines an intelligent story, with suburb acting and spell-binding cinematography. But what is really fantastic is the directing. The opening scene, for example, runs in reverse, teasing you with with a hint of how the movie will develop. The mix of black and white with color is exciting, and the ambiguity of the film makes you identify further with Lenny, the narrator. Everything about this movie is remarkable...but what is even more remarkable is that it is playing in just a handful of US cinemas. In fact, when it opened in NYC, it opened at only four theaters. How this can be, I can not understand.
If you havent seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to see it, and you owe it to your friends to tell them about it. If only the movie industry would crank out movies like Memento the way they crank out movies like The Patriot, Erin Brockovich (or whatever)....