Remember Me 2010

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: A simple romance for swooners that wins points for noting that two lovers bring with them a clashing mess of family and friends Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The film's tone is all wrong, the pacing is dead and the veering between sex, sadness and sado-masochistic violence is enough to give you motion sickness. It's a bad movie. Read more

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: If this movie is playing at a theatre near you, you might want to consider moving somewhere else. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The more you wait for the biggest plot development of the last decade to reduce everybody's problems to a hill of beans, the more Remember Me starts to make you feel cheap. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: There's a distinctly bittersweet undertow to the picture that draws you in and helps you overlook the film's weaknesses. Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: "Remember Me" is only slightly more than forgettable, but its good intentions and good performances can't make up for a central romance that feels more rushed than real thanks to the triumph of casting and celebrity over chemistry and charm. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: So many terrible things happen to the people in Allen Coulter's Remember Me that when the last awful twist comes -- something so resounding and meaningful that it instantly, horribly cheapens the rest of the movie -- you're almost numb to it. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: When the film finally goes for broke with that ambitious, colossally misconceived finale, a tremendous emotional investment in these characters is necessary to pull it off -- and even then, its prospects would be questionable. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: [Pattinson is] like Luke Perry doing James Dean in the dreariest John Hughes movie ever made: Some Kind of Terrible. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Allen Coulter directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: A small, dense chamber study of unhappy people looking for hope in the darkness, often literally. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Overwritten and overcooked, Remember Me still manages a few explosive sequences between Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The finale manages to be tasteful and exploitative at the same time. It touts forgiveness while being mildly infuriating. Such is the danger of borrowing from the enormous to merely entertain. If that. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: There's a sense of construction to Remember Me that undercuts its emotional impact, and emotional impact is pretty much all this film is shooting for. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A movie with all the hyperventilating hysteria of a 1960s teen-tragedy pop song and all the disposability, too. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: There are no less than four tremendous performances in the film. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Somewhere the heart that must anchor a romantic drama has gone missing. We don't so much feel the relationships as see them. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Pattinson's hero is well drawn, emerging as yet another descendent of Holden Caulfield. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There's no shame in exploring tragedy through art. But exploiting it to make your very ordinary movie feel more important? That's another story. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Time for a quick game of One of These Things Is Not Like the Others: Marlon Brando. James Dean. Robert Pattinson. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Remember Me is charged up with stormy melodrama. Pattinson's various fan contingents should eat it up... Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Remember Me represents Robert Pattinson's attempt to prove he can do more than sparkle like a faux vampire, but the case he presents is not convincing. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Ambitious but overwrought, with a polarizing final act. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The fact is, Remember Me is a well-made movie. I cared about the characters. I felt for them. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: It's all weepy drool until the twist ending, which turns it shockingly offensive. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A seemingly inconsequential action at the climax becomes a profound life-changer, giving each character's journey an unpredictable -- and I would argue, contrived -- conclusion. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Although clearly it was mapped by a team of consultants, Remember Me is a horrific misstep in the branding of Robert Pattinson. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: The film gets bogged down by plot points that plod toward an event of devastating proportions. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If Remember Me is remembered for anything at all, other than being yet another Robert Pattinson vehicle, it will be for its over-the-top ending, which ranks high amongst the most shameless jerkers of tears ever unleashed upon lachrymose teens. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Bless you, R.Patz & Co., because this gloriously steaming pile is officially in the bad-movies-we-love pantheon. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: Be warned, if you're vulnerable to outrageous, cringe-inducing implausibilities -- not least the ludicrous stand-up row between Tyler and his father in the latter's Twin Towers boardroom -- you'd best give this one a miss. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Remember Me is a touching love story, but its broader tale of familial relations packs a greater emotional punch. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: More tacky and preposterous than the worst blockbuster phone-in. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: After the first hint of what's coming -- which crops up less than 10 minutes into the movie and then doesn't let up -- the foreshadowing becomes so distracting that, by the time the darn thing goes off, there's only a sense of relief. Read more