Very witty!

Rating: 4/10 (2 November 2004)

Phew, what a ride! A stunning piece of art! Or maybe not.
You don't need any substance, just make some clever surprises, and the mediocre pepsi-drinkers think it's brilliant. Maybe some good entertainment in a hangover, but not worth watching another time, which is a good reason enough to say: Memento is NOT a masterpiece, just a somewhat handy and therefore empty piece of postmodern dullness.
Why is it that movies get so easily attention by shallow tricks? In the beginning I thought that Memento might have some levels, but the feeling of mystery involved can all be reduced to the plot, not to the theme, which is just some insignificant decoration on filmmakers' intellectual masturbation, not like in Donnie Darko, for example, in which the complex elements are related to some content.
All I'm saying, not a terrible movie, but you gotta be kidding saying it's "highly intellectual" or a "masterpiece". Unless you are uneducated or just dull.