Movieville.org’s Review of Remember Me

Remem­ber me

Direc­tor: Allen Coul­ter
Writer: Will Fetters

I, like most peo­ple enjoyed Twi­light, and I’m not ashamed to say that. I did go into this think­ing it would be another half decent indie film about rela­tion­ships love and fam­ily. I was, how­ever, pleas­antly sur­prised watch­ing the film.

Remem­ber Me is about Tyler Hawkins (Rob Pat­tin­son) a 21 year old guy liv­ing in New York, who doesn’t really see eye to eye with his father and is philo­soph­i­cally advanced than most his age. We see him deal with his pain and strug­gle and see him help peo­ple, in doing so gets him and his room­mate arrested.

As the story con­tin­ues we see his rela­tion­ship with Ally grow, Ally played my Emi­lie De Ravin. Ally’s story is told at the begin­ning and with­out giv­ing too much away she is deal­ing with some of her own trau­matic issues. Her rela­tion­ship with her father is pretty close, but a drunken night spent at Tyler’s gets her in trou­ble and she moves out.
For me. the rela­tion­ship between Tyler and his father played by Pierce Bros­nan was amaz­ing; the board­room scene was grip­ping, and for a moment I was mes­merised by what was going on. But the one who stole the film for me was Tyler’s lit­tle sis­ter Car­o­line, we see her deal­ing with her own issues of being dif­fer­ent and trou­bled at such a young age, for her per­for­mance alone would rec­om­mend going to see it.
Finally, the end­ing. If you pay close atten­tion through­out the entire film you might just see it com­ing, how­ever I was so cap­ti­vated by the story I did not, so it hit me when you see what hap­pens. There were sub­tle hints though; the eerie music which did fore­shadow what was going to hap­pen. I was happy it wasn’t a clichéd end­ing which at one point thought it was head­ing towards. It was bet­ter much better.

Over­all I would say its worth going to watch, decent and enjoy­able, great story and a won­der­ful cast.

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