Amazon. comGuy Pearce (L. A. Confidential) and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) shine in this absolute stunner of a movie. Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and virtuoso performances. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, hunting down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The problem is that “the incident” that robbed Leonard of his wife also stole his ability to make new memories. Unable to retain a location, a face, or a new clue on his own, Leonard continues hi. . . More >>
Anonymous
September 2, 2010 at 10:49 am
Now you can go on all you want and say “Oh he’s just a kid, what does he know?”. But I’m telling you I’m not a kid. I rented this film after seeing something on TV about it and it wasn’t bad. I found it quite involving how Leonard, a man with short-term memory loss has to write things down on paper and gather as many clues as he can to solve the mystery of who murdered his wife. But It’s a shame that so many people find it acceptable to find a film that has been edited this way so interesting. It demands too much concentration and attention. Unfortunately it requires multiple viewings to understand the story. This has been made unecessarily difficult to understand simply for the sake of gaining bloated recognition. This is more of a puzzle than a proper film.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous
September 2, 2010 at 11:32 am
And I wasted two hours. This flick was okay. There’s nothing innovative here, just playful editing and flashbacking. Because of that, the story never develops a much needed intensity. Everyone sleepwalks thru their roles. It’s all like a bad dream. Joe Pantolonio grates. You want something with a bite, go see Snatch. Again.
Rating: 2 / 5
Anonymous
September 2, 2010 at 1:00 pm
anyone who thinks this movie was good or “artistic” is kidding themselves.
Rating: 2 / 5
Lloyd Gruver
September 2, 2010 at 1:08 pm
This movie is typical of modern “cinema”: it is sordid and vulgar and filled with morally vile people. This is the disedification that passes for art nowadays.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous
September 2, 2010 at 1:47 pm
This middlebrow imitation “art-film” cant hide one thing from true movie appreciators: the gee-willacker twist ending is a cheap betrayal of the integrity of Leonard’s character. Great movies dont all-of-a-sudden turn the character you knew throughout the whole film.
Rating: 1 / 5