Remember Me

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The tone is set in the first shot: you see the twin towers in the distance. Then a mother gets shot. If you thought that's depressing, well... you'd be wrong, because it gets worse after that.

Funerals, terrorist talks, daddy issues, mommy issues, brother issues... Of course there's the obligatory smart-ass roommate, to provide 'comic' relief in a film that needs it desperately. Unfortunately, the so-called humor isn't funny, so that doesn't leave much outside of this 2-hour long weep fest. Well, not weep. But melodramatic drivel. With a main character who broods a lot. He's a brooder. There's brooding involved.
Only interesting thing is Brosnan. It's interesting to see him as an asshole. The dude's still got style, though. But the main character is always smoking. Because in American films the way to show the audience that a character is depressed is by having him smoke. And it looks like his eyebrows could give Colin Farrel's a run for their money. And what's with the messy rockabilly hairdo? Does it show that the character and 'actor' annoyed the shit out of me? I'm not sure, I might be too subtle.
And it's nice to see De Ravin, who's the quintessence of "super cute," without a rifle in her hands, or obsessing about her baby Aaron.

Anyway, I can't believe how freaking long this film is. By the 45th minute, I thought that surely it would be almost over, but no, it wet on for another 95 minutes! Come on! Chop-chop: we get it. Life sucks, and you're in love.
I have to say, even though I should have, I didn't see the end coming. But I think it was 11 minutes too long, that final voice over was completely redundant and therefore unnecessary and it took away from the 'surprise.' But it's Hollywood, so what can you do? At least no one ends up pregnant clutching their belly in a way to show the audience that there is a new life coming. And I'm surprised about that. It probably is somewhere on the cutting room floor.

By the way, just wondering: Has anyone ever seen Chris Cooper smile? Anyone? Ever?

PS: Wait... They're Irish but put stones on headstones? Jewish-Irish? A lot of them out there. Talk about a bunch of confused people they must be.