Completely underwhelming!

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2001)

I just finished viewing Memento about an hour ago and find myself stunned at the high praise it receives, If not for the edgy and sometimes startling editing, this would be nothing more than a decent "Outer Limits" or "X-Files" episode.
The characters are so excruciatingly thin and unappealing I couldn't feel anything or empathize with Lenny's plight. Who really cares?? Too bad the producers couldn't have added a bit of human spirit to draw the viewer in deeper and heighten the suspense.
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I'm assuming that there was no murder, as told throughout the movie, and that Lenny was *in fact* Sammy and his wife died in the same manner as Sammy's wife did. If so, how did we get from there to a man from San Francisco tearing around Nevada in a car stolen from a drug dealer that he killed in an abandoned building (who the hell knows why he was there anyhow)? And where does a policeman (John G.) fit into this clutter, other than adding necessary backdrop?
Another commentor was pleased that all the "loose ends" weren't neatly tied up. Normally, I would agree, but in this case some of the plot holes the size of Texas could have been filled in to tie a loose collection of facts and characters into something resembling a story.
5 out of 10 for originality in presentation!