Memento Review

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2012)

I thought Memento was one of the better shot movies that I've seen in awhile. Its about a man named Leonard who uses notes, pictures, and the tattoo's on his body to try and find the man who he thinks raped and killed his wife. Not too often do you have movies that start from the end of the movie and finish at the beginning using multiple jump cuts, giving you more information each time but also going back farther from the beginning scene. Within the first five minutes a guys head gets blown off and you have no idea why. The reason why i thought this movie was so great was that throughout the movie you are trying to put all the pieces together just as Leonard is. You feel like your in his shoes throughout the entire movie which keeps the audience enticed. I thought it was great in the end finding out that he had actually already killed the man who killed his wife but it never stuck with him, so to make it stick he just changed the details to be remembered as if his friend Teddy Gammel did it because him and the killer have the same last name.