Leading the race for most dishonest film of the year is "Remember Me," which opens here today and shows off Will Fetters as a writer who develops a few interesting characters and a story that seems to be progressing until a teacher takes a piece of chalk and writes a date on a board. It's as if a shot of an ocean liner focused on its name and we read, "H.M.S. Titanic."
A couple of scenes later, Fetters doesn't have to be creative anymore.
Before that, we get to see a lot of spoiled children, like Tyler (handsome Robert Pattinson), who claims to despise his father, and ignores him, at least until he needs money, especially for bail. And Dad (handsome Pierce Brosnan), a wealthy Wall Street lawyer, always comes through. Tyler's brother committed suicide, so there are plenty of guilt feelings. Then there's Ally (the very cute Emilie de Ravin), who was a little girl on a Brooklyn train station when two muggers shot and killed her mother. Her father (Chris Cooper) is a police sergeant, and guess what? He beat up Tyler when the young man mouthed off after the police broke up a back-alley brawl.
Tyler's buddy, Aidan (Tate Ellington) knows Ally and who her father is and suggests that Tyler seduce Ally to get revenge.
But then Cupid gets involved and parent-child battles continue on all levels, and when it might be getting interesting, Fetters cops out with a big, fat thud. If all goes the way it should, "Remember Me" will be forgotten quickly enough to spare us all dozens of movies that give a writer an excuse to not write or think or be creative.
Opens today on multiple screens
–Joe