If this was a review simply for the film it would have 3 stars, and just for the packaging 5 stars - hence the average of 4 stars for this release. What lets the film down is that it is just too difficult to follow, with the jumps backwards and forwards in the action sequences. Also the use of stronger leading actors could have helped. If you are a Christopher Nolan fan, stick with Interstellar and Inception.

Twenty three years ago, Christopher Nolan wrote and directed his second feature film - and in my opinion, it's the best film he's ever made. "Memento" tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), former insurance investigator, now a broken man searching for his wife's killer. But a head injury means that Leonard can't make new memories - everything fades after a few minutes... quite the handicap when you're trying to collect evidence and follow clues. So Leonard takes Polaroids of anything important, writes himself lots of notes and even tattoos important clues on his own body - he has to trust his own process. But how trustworthy are the people around him - people like Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) and Natalie (Carrie Ann Moss)? And how much can Leonard actually trust himself? "Memento's" neo-noir story is told episodically but backwards, with the beginning of each scene being the end of the scene that follows it. In this way we experience the events of the story as Leonard does - with no idea how he got there or what's going on. It's a bold narrative conceit and it makes what would otherwise be a fairly straightforward story challenging and intriguing to follow. 101 Films has done an exemplary job with this special bluray release. There's the hardshell box and steelbook with brand new artwork, the film with a series of newly created featurettes on one bluray and the previously released featurettes on another, a perfect-bound book containing an essay on the film by James Mottram, Jonathan Nolan's short story and inspiration for the film "Memento Mori" in its own booklet and an envelope full of replica notes and Polaroid images as seen in the film. The latter is a nice touch and really elevates the set into collectible territory. About the only downside to the package is that the steelbook case only supports a single disc so the second bluray with the archive special fetaures has to come in a separate envelope (albeit one styled to look like one of Leonard's manilla folders). The film itself looks great with nicely rolled-off shadows and the muted palette of the original negative preserved. There's a patina of fine grain from the relatively cheap film stock the movie was shot on, but it's a nice grain and it gives the film a texture that aggressive noise reduction might have destroyed. The sound is crisp and clean and balanced well across the surround mix. "Memento" is a modern classic and even though Nolan has gone on to direct more elaborate and, dare I say it, pretentious fare, this film is by far my favourite of his movies and this limited edition bluray is the perfect way to have it on my shelf.