Before I Go to Sleep is like a nightmarish 50 First Dates meets Memento without the backwards narrative gimmick. Before I Go to Sleep uses a different gimmick, the “how we got here” technique where the story opens at the end and the rest of the movie shows how the characters got to that point. I normally hate that framing device, but it works because that is the main character’s life. An amnesiac wakes up every morning and has to figure out what is true and false in her life. Even though it is a thriller, it is predictable because there are only four characters for the majority of Before I Go to Sleep. You know that one guy will be a villain, and one guy will be a friend. Before I Go to Sleep succeeds because of brilliant casting, and Nicole Kidman is in fine form here. Before I Go to Sleep is the kind of movie that I imagine actors dream of-you get to play multiple characters within one because of the character’s ambiguous motives or convenient facts. Before I Go to Sleep is a step above a Lifetime woman in jeopardy movie because of the acting. Am I the only one who thought that a really good lawyer could get the villain off scot free because the only witness had memory issues?