Memento

Pros: Acting, plot, directing, writing
Cons: Nothing

Plot: A man with short-term memory loss seeks revenge on the man who murdered his wife. Only catch is he can't remember anything past fifteen minutes.

Critique: Christopher Nolan has weaved together a brilliant and mesmerizing masterpiece....

Pros: Smart movie that will get your mind pumping
Cons: None

This movie is intriguing and very well thought out. My mind did not rest one bit during the movie nor even afterwards when being discussed with fellow enthusiasts. It is a good feeling to see a movie that really gets your mind going and adrenaline...

Pros: Keeps you guessing. Likeable characters. Enjoyable ending. Interesting temporal arrangment.
Cons: Sometimes hard to follow.

Memento is a fascinating movie about a person stricken with anterograde amnesia - basically someone who can't make new memories, though his ability to recall events before the amnesia is fine. I have never seen a movie based on a premise and I thought it...

Pros: Somehow unknowingly this movie draws you in
Cons: almost an impossible situation he's put in

I would advice all who see this on DVD to read the short Memento Nori in the special features section. This, although is slightly a different character, this is who he is based on. He needs to remind himself of much more basic things, like brushing his...

Pros: Absolutely BRILLIANT
Cons: It isn't playing in enough theaters

What's worse than a man waking up in the night to find his wife being raped and murdered? What's worse than trying to save her, and being beaten severely enough to cause brain damage, enough to make you lose all short term memory? What's worse than...

Pros: everything (also: a good memory exercise)
Cons: don't expect to sit back in your seat and relax for two hours

If you've heard any of the buzz on "Memento", you'll understand the titular inside joke. But to those of you woefully uninformed hucksters out there, let me explain: the movie is told backwards by scene (I'd say about ten to twelve, in all), which are...

Pros: Innovative form, interesting story, good acting...all of the perfect ingredients for a successful movie.
Cons: The structure got a little gimmicky.

Memento is one of the most intelligent movies I have seen in a long time. It makes you pay attention, it makes you think, and it keeps you entertained.

I think it is better to see this movie without knowing the details of the structure, so I...

Pros: The most intruiging plotline that has come around in a while.
Cons: Confusing, but well worth the effort required to understand.

Having become disillusioned with the drivel that Hollywood has been producing over the past several months, I decided to take a stand and refuse to see movies on any night other than Tuesday. My reasoning was that nothing was worth the $12, so it could...

Pros: Creative, risky, and original story, with solid, strong performances
Cons: Began to get very long and lost my interest half way through

Memento: a wonderful, ingenious, creative film for the artsy types. This independent film did what big blockbusters never could. It took risks. It was not looking to put people in seat, but looking to tell a story and make people think. About a man...

Pros: Clever, clever, clever. Guy Pearce is wonderful. He makes the movie.
Cons: Might be hard to follow the storyline, but I don't think so.

I first rented this movie after my best friend recommended it to me. He is an English major at Georgetown University and saw this movie in a drama class he was taking. Apparently the two brothers who wrote and produced this movie were students of the...

Pros: Outstanding
Cons: Few and far between, don't leave your chair

PHEW...what a rush of a movie, this is a masterpiece. A well done, well acted piece of cinema. It was a mind warping experience that kept you glued to the movie. Almost like a trance. It was beautiful, suspenseful, a wonderful amazing, brilliant ride...

Pros: Great performances, great mystery
Cons: Your going to be thinking for a long time.

Okay, I saw this movie like a month ago. when I have nothing to do this movie pops in my mind and I still try and figure everything out. But I can't, maybe it's my 15 year old brain.

This is one of the greatest mystery movies ever made!!! ...

Pros: the whole package: acting, directing, script, editing, story.
Cons: you'll want to see it again

This is a soon-to-be classic among suspense movies, in large part because it inverts the expected narrative sequence. On one hand, there is no suspense as usually exists in film because the first scene cinematically is the final scene chronologically -...

Pros: New and exciting.
Cons: The haunting of the Matrix - remember Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano?

I didn't see one preview for this movie before I saw it in the theatre. I knew very little about the movie, which may be the reason why I enjoyed it much. I'm not about to reveal too much about the movie in this review since this is the kind of movie,...

Pros: interesting plot
Cons: confusing! I just could not enjoy it.

Memento was a very confusing movie. It will make you think during the movie and for several days after seeing it. What makes it so confusing is that they start telling the story at the end and continue to the beginning. Basically, you know what happens,...