Good, original, overrated

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2001)

Momento is a good movie. Great it is not.
The telling of the story backwards can be described as a great style - maybe even a renaissance of storytelling. It's also a gimmick that the film totally depends on.
In the middle of the film, it gets tedious with remember everything that has happened. Who's the drug dealers? Who's connected with who? The backstory of Leonard's work became more interesting than the current story.
I thought the unravelling of the evidence should have been more interesting. It wasn't.
Did the tedious memory game distract everyone from asking why an alleged murderer was befriending the victim's husband?
The plotline of the film is a bore if you could watch it in proper sequence. However, some of this weakness is made up for the paranoid aspect as we empathize with Leonard.