Absolutely Fantastic, 10/10

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2002)

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen, 3rd favorite of all time (right after The Usual Suspects and American Beauty). All 3 of those movies are as close to perfect as I think you can get. Although, I only recommended Memento if you are renting the movie to sit down and really WATCH it, dont just view it. I sat in a chair, right in front of the TV, with my DVD remote in hand, and intently watched the movie, and I still had to pause and rewind to make sure I got all the neccesary info from the last scene to keep the movie rolling. It helps to have someone who's seen it before there with you(i'm sure they wont mind one bit) to point out the really important things and explain. Once you've seen it once, watch it again. And again. And you still wounldnt have gotten everything the movie has to offer. Many movies are like jigsaw puzzles, but this is like a jigsaw that you have to put together starting from the middle, upside down and backwards, and you only have tiny bits of a faded and torn reference picture. And the puzzle is of M.C. Escher's most mind bending work. A true masterpiece. Its impossible to describe the feeling you get when the credits start to roll. I suppose the best way to describe it is you are givin tiny metal pieces one at a time, and you have to put it all together, and when you finally do it and find its a gun, it shoots you in the ass. Remarkable movie.