Tanya’s Score: Good*
Rated: 14A
Starring: “whatever happened to Guy Pearce“; “whatever happened to Carrie-Anne Moss”; one of the Fratelli brothers
Plot: A man suffering from short-term memory loss (Guy Pearce) uses tattoos and polaroids to track down his wife’s (Jorja Fox) murderer.
Tanya’s Verdict: Gimmicky – yes – but still good. I found this one a tad confusing the first time I watched it – but after about 10 or 15 minutes, you get into the flow of the movie working backwards.
There’s a reason the audience is left in the dark about where one scene begins and another one ends – and it’s in order to mimic the brief bursts of memory that Leonard (Pearce) has to grasp in order to figure out what’s going on.
And despite knowing what I was in for before re-watching (movie starts at the end and ends at the start), once again it took me several minutes to get into it. Twenty years may have come and gone but I’m happy to report that Memento is just as entertaining as it was the first time I watched it. Although the kids were only lukewarm about it.
*Four score descriptions: Sh**; Okay; Good; Great