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Remember Me (2010)
An emotional journey is guaranteed with 2010's Remember Me, an intimate and explosive tale of family and romance that takes the viewer through a bumpy and unpredictable story climaxing in an ending you don't see coming at all.
Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a young man who several years ago found his younger brother after he committed suicide, who enters into a relationship with Ally (Emile de Ravin), who several years ago witnessed her mother mercilessly murdered on a subway platform. We are treated to a tentative relationship rich with roadblocks and secrets as we are simultaneously introduced to Tyler and Ally's family, who bring a lot of reveal into why these two people are so broken and why a real relationship seems virtually impossible.
Will Fetters, who would later receive an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for 2018's A Star is Born, does Oscar-worthy work here with an edgy story rich with unpredictability from beginning to end. It's impossible to gauge exactly where this relationship is going to go from scene to scene. This romance is given a strong anchor in the introduction of their families, especially Tyler and Ally's father, characters who are polar opposites as are their relationships with their children. Ally's father is a cop who to this day blames himself for his wife's death, while Tyler's father is a wealthy workaholic who really doesn't seem to have time for his family.
The film is rich with eye-popping scenes that come out of nowhere. There is one particular scene where Tyler bursts into his father's office during a meeting to brow beat dad for missing his baby sister's art show that galvanized the screen and had me holding my breath and I'm pretty sure this scene was a collaboration between Pattinson and director Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) that produced a scene with De Niro-type intensity as well as the scene where he escorts his sister back to school after a hazing incident, which leads to one of the most mind blowing climaxes I have seen in a movie in a minute that had me fighting tears.
Pattinson brings a disturbing intensity to Tyler and de Ravin lights up the screen as young Ally. Oscar winner Chris Cooper delivers as Ally's dad and I also liked Tait Ellington as Tyler's roommate and Kate Burton as Tyler's dad's assistant, but if the truth be told, it is the surprisingly powerful performance by Pierce Brosnan as Tyler's icy dad that was the real standout here...Brosnan never has done much for me as an actor over the years, but he's Oscar-worthy here. An emotionally charged motion picture experience that sticks the ending, which upped my rating half a bag of popcorn.
An emotional journey is guaranteed with 2010's Remember Me, an intimate and explosive tale of family and romance that takes the viewer through a bumpy and unpredictable story climaxing in an ending you don't see coming at all.
Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a young man who several years ago found his younger brother after he committed suicide, who enters into a relationship with Ally (Emile de Ravin), who several years ago witnessed her mother mercilessly murdered on a subway platform. We are treated to a tentative relationship rich with roadblocks and secrets as we are simultaneously introduced to Tyler and Ally's family, who bring a lot of reveal into why these two people are so broken and why a real relationship seems virtually impossible.
Will Fetters, who would later receive an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for 2018's A Star is Born, does Oscar-worthy work here with an edgy story rich with unpredictability from beginning to end. It's impossible to gauge exactly where this relationship is going to go from scene to scene. This romance is given a strong anchor in the introduction of their families, especially Tyler and Ally's father, characters who are polar opposites as are their relationships with their children. Ally's father is a cop who to this day blames himself for his wife's death, while Tyler's father is a wealthy workaholic who really doesn't seem to have time for his family.
The film is rich with eye-popping scenes that come out of nowhere. There is one particular scene where Tyler bursts into his father's office during a meeting to brow beat dad for missing his baby sister's art show that galvanized the screen and had me holding my breath and I'm pretty sure this scene was a collaboration between Pattinson and director Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) that produced a scene with De Niro-type intensity as well as the scene where he escorts his sister back to school after a hazing incident, which leads to one of the most mind blowing climaxes I have seen in a movie in a minute that had me fighting tears.
Pattinson brings a disturbing intensity to Tyler and de Ravin lights up the screen as young Ally. Oscar winner Chris Cooper delivers as Ally's dad and I also liked Tait Ellington as Tyler's roommate and Kate Burton as Tyler's dad's assistant, but if the truth be told, it is the surprisingly powerful performance by Pierce Brosnan as Tyler's icy dad that was the real standout here...Brosnan never has done much for me as an actor over the years, but he's Oscar-worthy here. An emotionally charged motion picture experience that sticks the ending, which upped my rating half a bag of popcorn.