Remember Me

Remember Me

Director – Allen Coutler

Starring – Robert Pattinson with Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan

MPAA – Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content, language and smoking.

“Remember Me” is a well written film, with deep characters and a riveting plot. It’s greatest fault is that the characters are inevitably linked to coincidences that in the end made me wonder why I bothered to invest two hours into a movie that decide to cheat me out of a good ending. Roger Ebert says the film is like two people meeting and falling in love and then a refrigerator falls on one of them, tragic, but who wants to see it? And that is exactly how I felt about “Remember Me”; I felt cheated out of a good film.

What worked was everything leading up to the completely coincidental ending. I loved the cinematography. The filming was done in deep rich colors that are found in good action movies, but the plot is realistic, and the combination is interesting to watch. On top of the beautiful picture, I was captivated by the depth of the characters. The script was surprisingly well written. Usually this type of movie is geared towards teenagers, and therefore the scripts are so bland and uninteresting the films barely hold together. Instead the dialogue is rather impresive.

Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin have pretty good chemistry, and both are talented young actors. Pattinson manages to shed his cold vampire acting (wich was intolerable in the Twilight series) and is instead a warmhearted – if not troubled – young man. He still manages to lose all ability to act when he first starts talking to the blonde beauty De Ravin, but he gets better in time. She is a lot of fun too, and her strong willed character is well developed and realistic.



We get to see Pattinson’s character in his normal life. He picks up his little sister every day after school, he goes to work at a book store, he is troubled, hates his dad, and it is clear something terrible has happened in his life. The main plot revolves around a romance that develops between Tyler (Robert Pattinson) and Ally (Emile de Ravin). Both have strained relationships with their fathers (Pattinson’s is Pierce Brosnan and de Ravin’s is Chris Cooper). These two men have small roles, but they play their parts well. In fact the background stories of all the characters are well put together and make the film that much deeper. Both Brosnan and Cooper each have dynamite confrontational scenes that are emotional and truly prove each mans high caliber abilities.



I really enjoyed the side story and character of Tyler’s little sister played Caroline by Ruby Jerins. Having three younger sisters myself I felt like Jerins’ older brother as well. I just loved her character. As a young actress she just needs to be cute and adorable to carry herself, but she plays the character well and I think Ruby Jerins has a lot of potential. She has a really heart-warming part to watch.



I grew attached to the characters and I wanted things to work out. I wanted the family issues to be resolved, and then came the ACME safe, right out of the sky, and my hopes for the film were crushed. I can’t give the film anything higher than a 7 out of 10 because of the “coincidence”. Everything worked up till then. It is a great story, with excellent characters, the acting is good, the plot is well structured, but I felt cheated, robbed, and I was left conflicted between excellent development and a bummer ending.

Sex/Nudity – 6 out of 10 – There is a lot of sexual dialogue, and some really heavy kissing. There are two sex scenes where we see a lot of shoulders and bare backs; these scenes are a little longer than most.

Violence – 6 out of 10 - There are a few gritty scuffles with a bit of blood, they are very realistic.

Profanity – 6 out of 10 – There are 2 “F” words and many other vulgarities.