Remember Me – Movie Review

Director: Allen Coulter
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin P. McCarthy, Tate Ellington
Genre: Drama/Romance
Runtime: 113 min

I have to admit that it took me a while to see this movie, "Remember Me" being released more than three months ago, on the 1st of March. First of all let me tell you that even if you're not Robert Pattison fan, and you haven't seen/read the Twilight saga, you are going to enjoy this movie, and secondly this is not only a romance movie.

"Remember Me" is a movie about youth, family, love and loss. The movie starts by presenting Tyler Hawkins (R. Pattison): a rebel student, who likes to party, to write in his diary, to hang out with his little sister, and who doesn't agree with his father. He may seem the pretty bad boy type, but in the end he'll prove to be more than just that.

She is Ally Craig (Emilie de Ravin), the daughter of the policeman who puts in jail Tyler (due to his bad temper), and also Tyler's classmate. The two of them meet, eat the desert first, and fall in love. If you think that's pretty much it, you can't be more wrong.

Tyler will learn to communicate with his father Charles Hawkins (played by ex-James Bond, Pierce Brosnan), Ally to forgive hers, and together will learn to take care of one another. The ending of the movie is the most surprising part, and even though it doesn't offer a closure, it gives the audience the task to come up with an ending. Intrigued?

Apart from Robert Pattison, Pierce Brosnan, Emilie de Ravin, in the movie also star Chris Cooper as Sgt. Neil Craig (Ally's father) and Tate Ellington as Aidan Hall (Tyler's roommate and friend).

The movie excels in the honest way in which it presents the feelings of the characters, and offers an insight into the father-daughter/father-son relationship. The love story is an atypical one, meant to offer balance for both main characters, so that in the end they end up saving one another.

"Remember Me" is one of those movies that makes you think long after it is finished, and which for sure you're going to remember. So, if you haven't seen it yet, then it's a must to see it.

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