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Saw Memento.  At the ticket counter, I almost asked for "Un Memento, por favor" -- but then I figured the ticket guy probably heard that a dozen times already, so I thought better of it.

Anyway -- very, very cool movie if you're into twisty/turny type suspense movies, which I totally am.  Very well put together.  Very clever.  You sit there and you know the obvious conclusion i sn't right and they reveal just enough to set up a couple other possibilities, which you frantically try to piece together, and then at the end they pull the rug out from under you and the first thing you want to do is watch the movie again and see how it fits together now that you know what you know.  God, I love that shit. It's the type of movie that sends you out into the night thinking nothing is as it appears, so you walk through downtown Northampton and you look at everything and everybody with heightened senses and your mind is processing things at 10,000 revelations per minute, bordering on paranoia.  At least that's what happened to me.  Very exhilirating.  Me likey.

And Guy Pearce got it goin' on all over Russell Crowe (Maximus my foot -- more like Maxim-ASS). - Shawn

In that peculiar place where Angel Heart meets Pulp Fiction, we find Memento, with a Matrix-laden cast led by that Guy from LA Confidential. The plot is similar to The Fugitive, but only if the One-Armed Man had Two Arms and if Harrison Ford had been bonked on his head and lost his memory.  You know, like Robocop, except he wouldn't be a half-robot fighting crime. Instead, Memento main character Leonard is a half-robot committing crimes.  Memento succeeds in turning the improbable into finely entertaining cinema.  Like Babe the Talking Pig or perhaps another movie.  Maybe I should've written this review BACKWARDS! Talk about NUTTY! - Tom, May 9, 01

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