The screenplay is brilliant, and the acting is incredible.

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2002)

I rented Memento not knowing what to expect. After viewing it, I was speechless. The plot of the movie is impossible to describe in a few sentences - it is so much more than simply a murder mystery. It is a movie unlike any I have ever seen; for instance, chronologically Memento begins at the end, and ends in the middle, while during the movie the plot jumps back and forth between the present and the past. The central character of the movie, Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce), is in every scene. It is Pearce's depiction of a man uncapable of forming new memories ever since his wife's death that carries the whole movie. By the end, we see that a lack of memory is perhaps the worst handicap anyone can have. I highly recommend this movie to all viewers, but be warned - in order to truly appreciate this movie you have to be paying attention to every detail.