A movie that places you right in the middle of it....

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2002)

I found this an extraordinary film on the level of involvement and frustration that it managed to extract from me. I started out feeling detached. Then with more and more flashbacks and a feeling of uncertainty in whereabouts in the story I and the protaganist were, it captured me. I developed enormous sympathy for Leonard, a guy who is aware of his short term memory loss and has come to a point where he accepts it. We are never sure of the other characters in the story, Leonard's notes and tattoos on his body gives us the basic clues as to who is to be trusted and significant data that are important to the script, like a former client of his who had the same condition of memory loss that Leonard has. There is no easy resolution in this movie, if you like your movies all tied up neatly at the end this is not for you. Rather, it lingers with you long after the movie is over, like an endless loop. Leonard never has a resolution to the discombobulated jigsaw puzzle his life has become. Bravo, all. 8 out of 10.