Movie Summary of Remember Me by Michael The Moviegoer.
REMEMBER ME = *1/2
“Forget It”
“Remember Me” opens with a young girl witnessing her mother being murdered on a New York City subway platform. The mother is played by Martha Plimpton[!]. Except for a quick mention of it later in the film, this opening scene is so completely disconnected from the rest of the movie that it feels like someone accidentally changed the channel.
Throughout the rest of the movie I kept thinking that scene would somehow come back to haunt us. I kept waiting for the murderers to come back around now that the girl is grown up, hence the title “Remember Me[?]”.
The girl, now a teen, is played by Emilie de Ravin. Her father is a New York City cop played by Chris Cooper. But he just seems to wander through his scenes wondering how winning an Oscar has led to him making movies like this.
Cooper arrests potential bad boy Robert Pattinson after a street fight, and Pattinson vows revenge for the arrest by dating the cop’s only daughter. Pattinson plays the role of the teenage romantic lead as if he were a zombie or a vampire. Hey, doesn’t Pattinson play a vampire in “Twilight”? In that movie his character has to suck in order to survive. What’s his excuse for sucking in this movie?
“Remember Me” arrives at an unforgiveably distasteful ending that may leave many in the audience wanting to throw their empty popcorn buckets at the screen. It can only be described as “shock and awful”.
DVD Double Feature: In the very limited genre of doom-and-gloom New York romances, I am reminded of “Autumn In New York” starring Richard Gere as a man who falls in love with a terminally ill Winona Ryder.
Michael The Moviegoer
