Memento

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Summary: stunning
Review: forget all the box office blockbusters that u sit through and come out of feeling empty. this movie is what cinema should be about. it will have you guessing, wondering, THINKING. what a concept, a film actually getting you to use your brain. this is not insipid entertainment. this is gripping and puzzling. u will find yourself talking out loud to your friends attempting to figure out the next step in the movie will be while puzzled about the previous step in the movie and figuring how it all connects. but dont talk too loud or for too long, youll miss something else! dont get up to go to the bathroom, dont get up for a snack, or be sure to pause the movie when u do. if u miss even a bit of the movie, youll be out of it to say the least! anyways, this movie is amazing and awesome and what film should aspire to be! 5 stars!

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Summary: Amazing
Review: Memento is one of those films that are just amazing. Lenny has a condition, he can't make new memories. He can remember everything before his accident, nothing else. The story is told backwards, with flashbacks inbetween. We don't know what is the present and what is the past. Christopher Nolan really puts you in Lenny's shoes. He did a great job. I give this a perfect five stars.

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Summary: Will keep you guessing to the end...(or beginning?)
Review: Being a mystery fan, I enjoyed this storyline as it kept me guessing who was a friend & who was the foe until the very end.
It is a very fast paced movie that runs from end to beginning...makes you think you would have all the answers right? Not so!
The only problem with this movie is that so much depends on the ending (or rather the beginning) that once you know the whole story, that is it. All done. Over. Fin.
As much as I liked it, I don't think watching it again would have the same effect. I highly recommend it as a great rental, but I have to say I don't think it is something I would purchase.

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Summary: Landmark Piece of Filmmaking-Like nothing else
Review: This film is single handedly one of the greatest achievements in filmmaking.The film starts out at the end of the film and works its way backwards. For example, imagine there are five scenes: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
5 is played first and when it ends it goes to the beginning of 4 and so on. Then near the end, it switches to normal forward motion. But enough about the way its made.
The film tells the story of Leonard, a 30 something man who cannot make new memories due to an event that killed his wife and made him the way he is. Therefore he is forced to take pictures to remember who everyone he meets. During this whole time he is on a mission to find out who is the murderer of his wife and then kill him when he is found.
Along the way he meets a few characters who are quite suspiscious, and until the end you can't trust any of them.
This film is filled with twists turns that get you sucked into its awesomeness. This film is exceptionally done and it leaves you feeling with a new look and respect for filmmaking.

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Summary: Fantastic movie!! Highly recommended!!
Review: The ending is quite possibly the greatest example of movie producing I've ever seen, and the two hours after it don't leave me with any complaints either.

This movie is incredibly intelligent, and I presume it will go underappreciated - much like what I tried to achieve with my introductory sentence. The acting, cinematography, and above all else, writing in this movie is unparalleled.

If you have difficulty following plots, I hate to say this, but you should probably avoid this one - no offense, but I have friends like you. However, if your intrigue being grabbed forcefully and used to pull you towards the screen until your butt is about to fall off the chair is what you think movie watching should be all about, then you NEED to see this one ... because that's exactly what it does.

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Summary: Worst Film of the Year
Review: Despite the overwhelming accolades this film seems to have generated, Memento is a real dud. Very gimmicky and self-conscious, this film expects the viewer to automatically care about its protagonist and his ludicrous dilemma. It's true that Guy Pearce may succeed in arousing a very mild affection for his character, but that I think is due merely to the amount of time (depending on one's patience) the viewer spends watching him go through his paces. Even if the ending were extraordinarily mind-blowing (which it is not), it still would not adequately compensate the viewer for the time invested to get there. The film is extremely tedious to sit through: the characters are not interesting, the acting unremarkable, and the dialogue insipid. Why anybody would sit through this bilge, and why the director assumes people will, is the real mystery. The film resembles a poor made-for-TV movie, at best, that you might come across on the USA channel (and promptly dismiss). It's a perfect example of what somebody must have considered a unique concept with great potential, but alas, this effort fails to realize that potential. All of the fancy devices like flipping back through time and the alternating use of color vs. black & white cannot disguise how boring and empty the movie is. All flash and no substance makes Jack a dull movie viewer. For your sake, I hope you listen to the one voice of reason crying in the wilderness of mistaken notions of effective filmmaking. Take the two hours you would waste on this [stuff] and watch Snatch instead. Say what you will of its subtsance, that film, at least, contains, along with its flash, almost nonstop humor and an abundance of compelling character acting. With a minimum of characterization, Snatch succeeds where Memento does NOT, in showing us why we should (or shouldn't) care about the characters, and then the film keeps us entertained all throughout, instead of having faith that we will respect a single corny concept enough to wait two tedious hours for a payoff that, in this instance, doesn't come. I give it one star merely to recognize the (misguided) efforts required to make the film, and because I have (I think) endured worse films. Don't think twice, avoid Memento.

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Summary: Love it or leave it
Review: I bought this movie because a friend at work raved about it. I found it interesting, but it wasn't enough to keep me awake when I was really tired. I'm still planning to go back a see the whole movie when I'm more awake, but it wasn't enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. This is a recent cult classic that is worth viewing, but you might want to rent before you buy to be sure you really like it enough to watch it more than once.

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Summary: a memento for your dvd collection
Review: This is one of the most innovated films of 2000 and a really cool movie to watch---you'll need to watch it more than once to catch everything and even then you'll still have questions. That, however, is the beauty of this film. Told in reverse and in snap shots, the story is slowly revealed and it is absolutely spellbinding. I won't go into details because I don't want to reveal too much but it is a great way to spend a night with friends and a big bowl of popcorn. Guy Pearce is an excellent actor, as are Carrie-Anne Moss ("The Matrix") and Joe Pantoliano ("The Matrix" and tv's "The Sopranos"). Give it a try...you won't be disappointed.

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Summary: Memento More Memorable than Not!
Review: At first the direction of the plot was somewhat disorienting; but very soon, this flick became completely fascinating and inescapable. There doesn't appear to be much publicity for this film...but there should be. You will not be disappointed. Try it!

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Summary: Nothing But Oscar
Review: This is a twisting plot of a 'totally innocent' man who can't remember anything past five minutes because he lost his short-term memory due to a knock on the noggin back when his wife was 'raped and murdered.' The color story goes backwards telling the end first then what happened before, then before that, then before that and so on. In this set up the audience is immersed in the same problem as the character, NOT KNOWING WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO CAUSE WHAT IS HAPPENING. Slower than the color story is a black and white story that starts from the beginning and tries to do it's best to describe the situation. And in the end the two stories meet and when the viewer realizes or thinks they know what happened the black and white story becomes color. Only you really don't know the half of it. Now, for me I figured out a few things before hand so it didn't shock me as much as it probably would have (The first time I saw it was on DVD and I had to pause it a few times so I had extra time to think about it rather than seeing it all at once in a theater), but it was extremely worth every minute and there is still even more twists that threw me off all the way till the absolute end.

Overall it was very impressive and very well done, and to think it was filmed in 24 or 25 days, UNBELIEVABLE!

I think that this movie is a classic. I for one and maybe the only one, think that this movie should have either A) a prequel or maybe even B) a sequel.

Don't forget to go ahead and buy this movie, you will regret wasting the five bucks on renting it.