A damn-long movie with a long name...

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2009)

Among a group of 5-6 friends I was the only one who did not like this movie. So one may conclude that it should not be a bad movie after all. To me, however, it will be remembered as a "boring movie with a long name".
So the idea is that a man ages backwards. Well, that's a good idea for a movie but even the writers of a 30-minute late night show may come up with better ideas. "Memento" is a great film not only because of its brilliant idea but the way that idea was implemented.
Although this film is packed with some good actors and dazzling makeup and visual effects, the weak script and character development makes this movie a failure. After the first hour of the movie I lost my faith in the story and was just waiting for the occasional lightning scenes!
The movie has so many irrelevant events with no help to the main story like war scenes, hurricane Katrina, the woman who liked swimming, and even the mumbling old Cate Blanchett parts. In a well-developed story all of these would have been a part of the whole puzzle but here they are just unsuccessful attempts to give more dimension to this rather predictable story.
Had not the movie received so high IMDb rating, I would have given it a 5 or 6 minus. Now I give it a sole star to keep the movie south of really good films in the chart!