It’s incredibly endearing that Following is exactly like what you’d expect a debut budget film from Christopher Nolan to be like. That’s regarding both what’s praiseworthy and budgetary restraints. Nolan’s lean plotting centered around lead characters is all here, but without the grand ideas and execution of his later movies. There’s still a lot of appeal in seeing a smaller scaled story pulled off so intensely. The nonlinear structure foreshadows Memento, but it lacks that needed character insight.