Wow! Such a good movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The only reason I am not giving this film a 1/10 is because the acting was so phenomenal and the movie was very good until the soul crushing ending. I love a good tragic romance, but this movie simply went too far. If you want to get your heart ripped right out of your chest, this is the movie for you. It left my heart aching and my mind spinning for days.From the description on Netflix, I knew I was in for a tearjerker. I can handle a little tragedy but only if it is well done. This movie is not well done at all. First of all, the two characters have already lived lives riddled with tragedy. I personally felt that the opening scene was completely unbelievable and very much avoidable. So the two main characters bring happiness to each other's otherwise tragic existences.I loved Tyler's relationship with his little sister, I thought those were among some of the best scenes in the movie. I felt that the premise was forced and ridiculous of Tyler "only approaching" Allie to get her cop father to drop the charges against him. That plot line was weak from the very beginning and only serves for them to get in a stupid fight about it later on.I personally realized that the current timeline was 2001 from the very beginning, I know that a lot of people missed that. In the opening scene it shows 1991 flash across the screen and then it says "ten years later" when the true action of the story starts. I still was under the impression that 9/11 had already happened though, thus adding to the tragic atmosphere of their existing lives. In their political science class the teacher mentions "recent terrorist attacks" which I assumed could be none other than 9/11.Robert Pattinson gives a breathtaking performance and the chemistry between him and the main lead is unquestionable. The only questionable thing is what on earth the director was thinking with his horrifically offensive twist ending. I started to see it coming when they mentioned it was Labor Day...Labor Day in 2001 is obviously before 9/11...so I assumed they were perhaps going to have her cop father killed in the attacks which would have been tragic because they were fighting the better half of the movie. But no...they chose to go an even darker route.It seems like a lot of people loved the twist ending, but I am definitely among those who are appalled and sickened by it. The fact that the director chose to withhold that Tyler's father was working in one of the towers all along is NOT poetic or moving, it is a deliberate trap to throw the viewer off. My issue is not that they incorporated 9/11 into this movie. But to USE 9/11 as your surprise/Sixth Sense twist ending is unforgivable. I would have been more OK with it if from the very beginning you knew that his father worked there. Then it would have just been a tragic story that happened to take place around 9/11.And not to mention how unbelievable this string of events is! So we are to believe that these two sets of families have really been struck with this much tragedy? Ally's mother is murdered right in front of her and then the love of her life dies in the 9/11 attacks??? And poor Caroline...her one brother kills himself and then her other brother dies in the 9/11 attacks? Come on!!! What did these poor families do to anger The Reaper??? Some people claimed that the take away from this movie is that happiness is still possible no matter how much tragedy hits you. I suppose I can see that point but I think it could have been better accomplished without reliving the worst moment in American history. And I think that point still comes across without Tyler dying a horrific, unfathomable death in the end.I am not sure what the take away from this movie is supposed to be but the only thing it made me wish was that I had picked a different movie on Netflix.

I just watched this movie. Has no one actually written an IMDb review for this movie in almost seven years?SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERTI came to IMDb looking for some particular kinds of reviews for Remember Me, that cover the end of the movie from a certain angle. I didn't find any, though I only looked through a dozen or so reviews. So instead I'll just write up my own thoughts and questions, and possible answers for those questions.At the end of Remember Me, Robert Pattinson's character, Tyler, is killed, happening to be up in one of the Twin Towers on September 11th. Being a writer myself, I think that's a very interested choice to make for how to end your movie. Was it just tacked on, I wonder? Many people seemed to think so--that the whole point of Remember Me was to get people to remember September 11th, but handled in a very clumsy manner.Certainly I think that most of the negative reviews Remember Me received were exactly because of that ending. It felt tacked on. It didn't seem to have any real bearing on the rest of story, didn't flow naturally from the other elements. Possibly, it was just a way for the movie to jerk even more tears from its audience, an overly transparent and tasteless way; others actually liked it.But what I'm kind of wondering to myself is, "Just how tacked on was that ending," really? Now, first of all, if this story was actually based on a true story, I could understand the ending. But I don't recall there being anything to indicate that, at all--no final scrawl saying this character went on to do this, this character went on to do that. So I'm pretty sure it was an arbitrary decision by the screenwriter.But what if the character had merely died in, say, a car crash? Would the ending still have been tacked on? No, I don't think so. If that had been the case, people might look at the movie a little differently: "This character lost his brother to suicide a few years ago. Alyssa lost her mother ten years ago. Both families have been wrecked by these incidents. But now, somehow, after all these years . .. things have finally started to come together for them. Tyler and Alyssa have gotten together, and after some rocky times their lives are looking up. And Tyler's sister and his father have started to mend their relationship. Everything looks like it's about to start to be good for these characters--but no. The Greek gods, or fate, or destiny, has something else planned for them." And instead of deus ex machina, it's more like diablo ex machina. I'm reminded of City of Angels, just when Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage seemed to have found their happy ending. I was always angry at that ending.I think that Remember Me may deserve a second look. Removing Tyler from the story through September 11th does seem tacked-on, a way to keep September 11th in our memories even more. One way or another, it does feel like a mistake.But I have to wonder, then--at risk of letting this review descend into even greater insignificance than it already has: just why would the writer decide to use September 11th? Was there something about the events of that date that made it that much more significant for the writer than it already is for the average American? Did the writer actually know someone that died in September 11th? Or someone that died around the same time as September 11th? I can't help but feeling there was an important story trying to be told in Remember Me, almost something like Prometheus or Icarus--of characters cursed by the gods, fate, or happenstance.And yet, in choosing to tie it all together with the seemingly very arbitrary choice of September 11th, it undermined the message. If someone did somehow consider September 11th integral to the story, to their own personal story perhaps, I would have liked to see more of THAT story. And if not--if the central purpose of the whole story was just to remind people of September 11th . . . then I'd say it failed badly, and if Remember Me is remembered, it will ultimately be for the fact that its ending had so little to do with the rest of the movie.

This Twilight guy is really compelling. I think he has superstar potential in adult roles. I believed all of these characters, and I appreciated the complex plot. The lead reminded me of a Brando or Mickey Rourke.Wounded people find each other by the strangest circumstances. Or maybe not so strange, since people with similar issues make similar decisions. There was something "old school" about having a story revolve around white non-Italian people in modern working class New York. Although originally the guy was not working class.It seems that both the main guy and his brother could not find a reason to live and thrive. The annoying roommate accurately tells him to stop with the brooding rebel thing. That was great. Sometimes people are tortured beyond repair. I think that was the message.Meanwhile the actress playing the young girlfriend was totally believable and Pierce Brosnan pulled off an emotionally absent American with skill.There is occasional use of voice overs while the protagonist is writing to his brother. I usually don't like that, but it wasn't overdone. The feel of the city through the photography was not overly glamorized, nor over the top gritty. But New York is not a subtle place and that feeling was conveyed.I found most of the emotional baggage boring and depressing however. But the main actor's performance kept me with it all the way through.

I need to remember not to allow my movie choices to be influenced by critic's opinions. I just finished watching Remember Me, stumbled on it by accident in Netflix, and couldn't stop watching. I'm a huge Rob Pattinson fan, loved the Twilight books and movies, but heard such negative reviews about this movie that I never gave it a chance. I'm so glad I did! What a tremendous performance by Rob. I saw his acting potential in Twilight, he was by far the main reason those movies were even as good as they were. But he really seems to be strengthening his craft in this movie. He's believable and you can't take your eyes off him. Not because of handsomeness, but something magnetic. There were several other great performance as well, including his girlfriend and young sister.This isn't a cookie cutter movie with predictable plots and stereotype characters. It was a very emotionally satisfying movie. I highly recommend it.