A breath of fresh air.

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2003)

People like to watch movies, for different reasons. To feel good, to release yourself into another world and take you on a ride, to make you cry, to learn things etc. Certain movies, give you a feeling after the movie that asks oneself, "WHAT JUST HAPPENED???".
Memento is the latter, and what a breath of fresh air this is. This movie is different, that shows you the ending first, then plays a scene before the last scene each step of the way. Plus in the mean time it plays a different set of scenes forward between the scenes going backwards. Though each scene played, uncovers the revelations of whats to come. Confused you should be.
You should really go into this movie without any knowledge of the film whatsoever...... As you should with any film as a matter of fact....
Anyway stop reading this and watch it if you haven't already. If so watch it again. The basic plot is that Lenny suffers from short term memory loss, due to an incident. The last thing that he can remember is the death of his wife, who was killed by someone. Even with his problem, he sets out to find her killer.
Now even from this basis, creates a great story to come, but the magnificent thing about this is, as mentioned before it plays backwards. Nolan directs this with such imagination and scope, that he seems a very promising future. Guy Pearce is immense in this, the only film I saw him in before this, was LA Confidential. Now I'm a fan of his. Supporting cast is also good, with Joe Pantoliano and Carrie Annie-Moss from the Matrix.
I'm not going to say anything more, but it will leave you puzzled at the end and so it should.
A+