{"id":2318,"date":"2017-09-06T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:18:58","slug":"rememory-regrettably-forgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeschoolmommoviemavin.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/rememory-regrettably-forgettable\/","title":{"rendered":"REMEMORY – REGRETTABLY FORGETTABLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHORT TAKE:<\/p>\n

Rememory<\/em> is a missed opportunity to make a better film – like an engine on low idle the\u00a0writer tries to glide by with huge plot holes in an uninspired humorless unexceptional murder mystery with a flaccid surprise ending, wasting the considerable talents of both Peter Dinklage and the late Anton Yelchin in the latter’s second to last film performance.<\/p>\n

LONG TAKE:<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0do not like\u00a0Game of Thrones <\/em>but I LOVE Peter Dinklage. When\u00a0a show: throws a child out a window,\u00a0kills the family dog,\u00a0has a scene of graphic bloodshed including close up visuals of throat slitting and stabbing a pregnant woman, and arranges for\u00a0Sean Bean to die\u00a0———- AGAIN!\u00a0\u00a0then I’m not interested. Thankfully, I knew about these incidents before I ever invested any time in Game of Thrones <\/em>so stayed away……except that even I enjoy Youtubes of scenes with Peter Dinklage as Tyrion. JRR Martin, the author and creator of the\u00a0blood soaked GoT<\/em> epic,\u00a0is supposed to have wryly quipped: “If ‘they’ kill off Tyrion I’LL stop watching.”<\/p>\n

Dinklage is a fine actor – at home in both comedy and drama, as a villain or as a hero. \"pixel\"And whether it’s\u00a0a bizarre over-the-top retro gamer in\u00a0Pixels<\/em>, \"elf\"a touchy business executive in\u00a0Elf<\/em> or \"xmen\"the evil genius in X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/em>, I have never seen anything Dinklage has been in that I have not at least liked HIM.\u00a0So when I tell you Rememory<\/em> is just not very good, despite Dinklage being in the lead role, you can be assured I was biased in favor of the movie, but was sadly disappointed.<\/p>\n

\"dinklageThe movie, premiering September 8, 2017 in theaters, is a murder mystery which is unrelentingly melancholic, humorless, without much surprise in its resolution and SLOOOOOW. It tries to be a moody set piece, but only\u00a0succeeds in flirting\u00a0with boredom. \"dunn\"The premise is that\u00a0a Dr. Gordon Dunn (Martin Donovan) has invented a machine which can record, then display, memories taken directly from your brain, unfiltered by emotion or bias. The theory is, that being able to face – literally – painful memories, could help people come to terms with them and heal mentally. \u00a0Sam Bloom (Dinklage) stalks Dunn after attending a speech given by Dunn. The next day Dunn is\u00a0found dead\u00a0 in his office with bullet holes in his wall, cause of death a brain aneurysm. Bloom doesn’t believe it is of natural causes and, telling Dunn’s widow that Dunn once saved his life, Bloom goes on a quest to solve the crime.<\/p>\n

The plot has some unfortunately preposterous turns – Bloom is able to easily find and steal\u00a0the priceless prototype that everyone else is desperately searching for. He stalks Dunn, a noted scientist,\u00a0without consequence or investigation by the police. He never becomes a suspect in the investigation despite his unusual presence in and around Dunn and his wife, before and after the mysterious death. And,<\/p>\n

MILD SPOILER<\/p>\n

within the first few minutes of the movie he is driving drunk and becomes involved in a terrible accident, killing his brother, yet only a few years later he is unscathed and completely free, with no allusions to any jail time he would undoubtedly have served. Not since the unfortunate\u00a0movie\u00a0Looker<\/em> have I seen a sci fi whose author has so casually ignored logic, and assumed that the audience will be too wowed by the premise to notice the ridiculous flaws in the story. The\u00a0author of Rememory\u00a0<\/em>was wrong.<\/p>\n

It’s not a bad movie, just one with a very weak script. The failings in Rememory <\/em>are in the writing, not\u00a0Dinklage’s performance. \"bloomDinklage is convincing and measured in his character’s deep grief for his brother, puzzlement over the odd circumstances he eventually finds himself in, and his committment to the man to whom he believes he owes much.<\/p>\n

MEDIUM SPOILER<\/p>\n

Bloom is obsessed with Dunn because he desperately wants to know what his brother said during his last minutes. But the “big” reveal is not set up very well and\u00a0what could have been an earned shock turned into a mild “Oh what a shame” moment.<\/p>\n

BIG SPOILER<\/p>\n

It’s pretty obvious when we see the flashback for the first time the brother is just catatonically singing what they had been singing before the crash. So there’s no suspense there as Bloom\u00a0claims he wants to know “the last thing his brother said”. When we find out there’s something more devastating he has been hiding from himself, it would have been so much more compelling if we could have looked back and noted the breadcrumbs that led to that moment. However, instead, what we get is an unanticipated “gotcha” which elicits more an emotional shrug than any depth to the plot.<\/p>\n

It is especially sad that Rememory <\/em>is not better because it includes one of the very last performances by Anton Yelchin – the young actor who played both<\/p>\n