I love Noland of course. And have loved every movie of his up until this point. Even the spectacular "Following." But this movie was an absolute waste. The style or format was so confusing that I didn't figure it out till the last 3rd. I was spending so much time trying to figure out what was happening that it was a distraction from the plot. And why? What was really the reason for experiencing time in 3 different lengths simultaneously? There wasn't. It was just to do it.

So many movies you don't fully get the first time but you still have an understanding and enjoy what's going on. Memento for example. Which also has a reason for it's style.

I think the real problem here is that there's hardly a story. A lot of things feel like they're happening to give this particular story something to do at this moment to keep it even. Exciting moments happen and the music is going crazy and what's happening on screen isn't all that exciting.

And what was up with the dialogue level? You could hardly hear them over the pounding score. Cool music but it really didn't fit with what was going on.

When they ran on the beach with that dude in the stretcher for a few minutes to a pulsing score that built up to nothing I knew this movie wasn't going to be good.

I think the praise for this movie comes from the fact that people don't want to admit that they were confused and the fact that an amazing director did it. If this movie was exactly the same with a different directions name on it people would hate it.

I'm hoping that after doing "more conventional" movies like Batman that Nolan's artiste side had built up and that he had to get it out of his system with this movie.