Remember Me

Remember me, was very good to be honest, a bit boring at times, but I did enjoy sitting in that movie theatre and watching the scenes come and go. Maybe it was because it was a great movie or maybe it was my best friend sitting next to me.

It started out with us guessing how the movie might be. The beginning was quite predicable really. I crossed my arms and turned to my friend and said, “Someone’s going to get shot”
… And I was correct. The movie started with a tragic scene, then enters a time lapse of ten years. Tyler Hawkins (Robert Pattinson) is then introduced into the story. As the time passes and new scenes unfold, the story becomes a bit less predictable, at least I couldn’t completely predict it. I couldn’t even predict the ending until a key point reminded me of something I read in a journal post here.

Tyler was an amazing character and I must say Robert Pattinson did a great job, in my opinion, portraying him. He seemed like the type of guys that everyone would assume that he’s a slacker, the smoking, drinking, slackers that caused trouble. In the beginning, that’s the first thing I thought about really. But as the scenes come and go, we find out that he’s into poetry and that he holds a love so dearly and huge for his younger sister, Caroline (Ruby Jerins).

After a mishap in an ally, Tyler and his best friend Aiden (Tate Ellington) end up in jail, after Tyler went at it with a cop who in Tyler’s opinion was not doing a good job. After being bailed from Jail by Tyler’s father, Charles (Pierce Brosnan) he goes back to life. One day Aiden sees the cop that arrested them, Neil (Chris Cooper) drop of her daughter Ally (Emilie de Ravin), he gets an idea that brings Tyler and Ally together.

A love unfolds between them. The tiny comedic, adorable scenes that come with them getting to know each other held a nice tint of romance. I absolutely adored Ally. That character was quite unique with her always eating desert first and with her challenging opinions on why she must not wait for her favorite part of the meal, made her just fabulous.

On another date, she ends up getting drunk because of Aiden asking her to go down to a party with him and Tyler. She gets sick and passes out, so they kept her at Tyler’s place. The next morning she runs out to go to her house where she meets an angry father that rummaged all through her stuff. After a heated argument she leaves the house and goes to Tyler’s. Where she was welcome to stay as long as she needed to, the scenes become heated with sexual content that had immature boys giggling in rows in front of us.

Because I’m not going to get completely into this, I’m going to say that as most movies, the happy romantic parts faded away as she finds out why exactly he came to her. The scenery changes and Tyler is taking her little sister to a sleepover party. At the party something slightly tragic happens to the little girl and she was brought back home the next day in tears.

Aiden goes to Ally and convinces her to come over, by stating that Tyler does indeed love her. I found it very brave of him to go up to house and speaking to her father, the cop that had arrested him. Soon, the romance takes over and she’s back to him, but then tragedy struck.

The ending wasn’t what I expected, when I entered the movie theatre I thought I was going to get a romantic ending, but I didn’t know much about the movie. I didn’t look things up and I barely remember if I actually saw the movie trailer. What gave it away, what brought back the memory of a journal I read was the date scribbled on a blackboard of Ally’s classroom.
The ending had the twist that made this movie close to amazing, bringing back the 9/11 incident. I wasn’t prepared for it and I was in tears at the thought of it.

I guess out of five stars, I give this movie a decent 3.5 out of 5 stars, because it had both the amazing and boring mixed together. I do believe that the ending is what really made the movie. Robert Pattinson was great, although I must say that at some parts I did see a bit of Edward Cullen into it, just the way he acted in a scene or two. The girl, Emilie, I have never seen her before or maybe I have, but just don’t remember, anyways, I thought that she was brilliant.

To me the movie wasn’t a complete waste. I actually enjoyed it, although my best friend and I had been fooling around a bit during it, but even so, I do believe that the ending is what made the movie.