Lack of good storyline.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I rate this very high on my best of list for its ambition and intellect.The script is written on the body of the main character. It's a device that the TV show Blindspot would rip off.I watched this over and over and over and it took me to a place I did not want to go, because it's very dark but here I go:The main character is attacked, wife raped, him injured. He develops a fake condition to scam his insurance. The insurance investigator figures this out during a flashback in a flashback with the eletric blocksHis wife gets fed up, challenges him, he knows it, and murders her with the insulin.Sent to a hospital, he escapes and meets up with the cop who investigated the case. They track down the rapist/thief and murder him.However, the memory condition then becomes imbedded. He became his own fictional character. The crooked cop exploits a drug deal gone wrong to get the dealer, Jimmy G, murdered.Jimmy's girlfriend Natalie, the smartest character in the whole movie, figures it out and uses our memory boy to chase off the other dealer looking for the missing money.Where I got lost is where our memory boy decided he wanted to kill the crooked cop and tattooed it to his body so it would become a memory.Lenny was never an insurance investigator, his condition is self-delusional. All he did is just the same as looking at a few polaroids and trying to create/remember a past. Guy is playing 3 characters here. His own character, the borrowed character of the insurance investigator, and his made up personality as the film goes along.

You will love it or hate it, personally it's my best film of all time. Ignoring the basics such as acting and production which are faultless the story and how it's portrayed onto screen is just awesome!!! I love how clever this film is and how it portrays just how fragile the human psyche and powerful the human drive is....

Memento - what an amazingly different, unique film! Although every scene moves forward (to a certain point), the film itself is moving backwards, yet it all makes perfect sense as if the film is moving forward. Pure genius! Guy Pearce gives and incredibly convincing performance.

Just watched Memento on netflix, I knew about the movie and everybody told me I had to watch it, but I was not prepared! This movie definitely earned its praise, and now it is one of my top 10 favorite movies