Remember Me

ATTENTION: MOVIE SPOILERS INCLUDED!!

Remember Me

March 23 2012

I knew nothing about this movie and my husband had it recommended to him by a co-worker so we decided to give it a try.

My opinion:

3 out of 5 bags of popcorn for the overall movie

3 out of 5 boxes of milk duds for my personal entertainment

My suggestion: DVD

The gist: Remember Me is the story of two new lovers; Tyler (Robert Pattinson) and Ally (Emilie de Ravin). Each of them are struggling with two very traumatic experiences from their past which play a huge part in their behaviors and relationship. Tyler’s parents are separated, his father (Pierce Brosnon) plays a successful, emotionless business man and his little sister (Ruby Jerins) is struggling to earn their father’s love and attention. Ally’s mother was murdered on the subway platform in front of her and her father (Chris Cooper) is tormented over losing his wife.

My Take: This movie was very interesting. It took about a half an hour to get into it, you figure out they are in New York and it appears to be before 9/11. I loved the intricacies of the characters, but that being said I feel like the main character, Ally I didn’t really get to know well at all. She was cute and likeable but I didn’t feel like I got an understanding for her like I did the rest of the characters.

Robert Pattinson was fine (looks and acting). I say fine because he basically plays the same awkward character he normally plays with a few other details added in. The two best performances in the movie in my opinion were by Ruby Jerins – she plays Tyler’s littler sister who is dealing with school bullying and there is actually a moment where something unpleasant happens to her in the movie and it made me gasp at the cruelty. My heart absolutely broke for this young girl.

I think this movie was designed as a real thinker, but my husband and I both guessed the ending and that kind of ruined the rest of it. There was so much build up to what should have been a very dynamic ending, and probably would have been if you hadn’t have already guessed what was going to happen. I must admit I did still think about the movie for several days afterwards trying to figure out if I liked it or not, so that is something.