Younger brother Jonathan Nolan (came up with the Person of Interest series) wrote the short story on which this was based. It's quite an ingenious premise, telling the story backwards, but I don't know what happened. The one thing I do know is that memory-deficient Guy Pearce gets mixed up with the wrong woman - we can see Carrie-Ann Moss is horrible, and therefore that whatever he does for her isn't good. We think that corrupt cop Joe Pantoliano is no good, because he just acts no good. We do think that Pearce didn't kill his own wife (Jorja Fox) but it may be true that he'd already got the killer and this was a wild goose chase. At the end of the day I have to say that satisfaction rating is low, because I would have liked to have known what was going on.
It's a dark and muddy journey.
Photographed by Wally Pfister, edited by Dody Dorn (Insomnia, A Good Year, Australia, the similarly annoying Matchstick Men). With Stephen Tobolowsky.
Does, however, end on Bowie 'Something in the Air', from 1999.
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