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Remember Me (Film)

by Karlie Jeffrey | March 08, 2010 14:59 | Edited March 08, 2010 15:01

Pattison delivers another brooding performance in this self-indulgent film about young love and deliverance

Teenage girls take note, R-Patz is back and determined to prove there is more to his acting repertoire than a 100-year-old vampire. And for his next trick, he chose Remember Me, a romantic drama, as his vehicle.

 

Set in the summer of 2001, Pattinson plays Tyler Hawkins, an angsty college student who is still struggling with the suicidal death of his brother and trying to find his path in life away from the wealth and privilege of his father, Charles (Pierce Brosnan). Prone to taking out his frustrations in fights, Tyler inevitably finds himself behind bars and to get back at the cop who put him there, he to dates his daughter Ally (Emile de Ravin, an Australian who headed to the States and landed plum roles in TV shows such as Lost and films such as Brick and The Hills Have Eyes). But as fate and romantic movies would have it, Tyler falls for Ally's strong sense of self and finds she too is dealing with grief of her own.

 

Pattinson and de Ravin do a good job in making the relationship between the youngsters believable, and fans will be pleased to see passionate love scenes. Pattinson's Tyler is adequately brooding and deep. It's clear the camera loves him and he can hold a story. However if he wanted to avoid typecasting, he may have picked the wrong script as the role is not all that different from his dark and intense Edward Cullen. De Ravin has a wonderful presence, as too does the young Ruby Jerins who plays Tyler's sister. The real surprise is Pierce Brosnan, who erases the terrible memory of Mamma Mia in this performance.

 

While Allan Coulter's film is self indulgent, and at times draws long links between scenes and characters that don't make sense, it does move at a reasonable pace and raises interesting questions about young love and deliverance. That said, the twist at the end is unnecessary, leaving a sour taste as you leave the cinema.