Possible spoiler of a film that can't be spoiled

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2001)

The problem I have with Memento is that there's no point of reference. It's told from the point of view of someone who is unhinged, so you don't know if what you've seen is true. Kinda like Diary of a Madman. But there's no place in the film where you say, "Oh, yeah, Now I can draw a correlation between these two points". As for it's being told backwards, I think it's being told upside-down and sideways. It's been compared to The Usual Suspects, but I'll be damned if I know why. When I saw that film I rewound it to see if I had been tricked, and, like The Sixth Sense, I hadn't. If a film is non-linear, that doesn't make it a great film. Form over substance does not a good film make.