Film Noir??

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2004)

*may contain major spoilers*
I watched this movie because my son kept stating this was the best movie he had ever seen. Since so many of his other choices were also mine, and the reviews were sooo good, I thought I would give it a try. I would have been better spending those two hours in a dentist's chair.
While I love a movie that makes you think, is unpredictable, or genuinely unique, I found this movie to be completely and utterly confusing.
I understand the twist of moving this movie in reverse chronological order, I feel Nolan did it because otherwise his script would not have supported all the hype. The plot is rather thin. And the questions left unanswered at the end just do not justify all the positive praise.
While watching this, I kept thinking several things.. when did wifey actually die, who did he actually kill, was Teddy really a good or bad guy, etc, etc.
There are some clues at the end that do not add up. The last (first?) scene he is flashing back to laying in bed with his wife, yet he already has the "I did it" tattoo. We have previously been led to believe that all the flashbacks with his wife are true. Yet, he sports this tattoo with his wife, which has been established to be before this movie takes place. That same tattoo does not show up anywhere else during the movie, except in the picture Teddy shows him. How can this be?
If you watch the DVD extras there are MANY medical/psychological reports shown, which are inconsistent with the entire plot of this movie.
In my opinion, people tend to think because this movie is incomprehensible, it is good. That which we can not understand must be of a higher thought plane than we are at, so therefore it is smarter, better, deeper??? When I watch a movie, I want to be able to understand what I watch and why I have watched it, not leave there going "What in the world was that all about???"