The pickup artist who does the honors is, of course, Tyler, who asks her out at the urging of his obnoxious roommate, Aidan (Tate Ellington, persuasively irritating). There are few light or casual moments, nothing to cut through the portentous air that settles onto the story in the first scene: in 1991, the young Ally Craig (Caitlyn Paige Rund) watches the murder of her mother (an uncredited Martha Plimpton) on a subway platform during a mugging, thereby bearing witness to horror, a function she repeats at the finish.īy the time Ally fulfills her narrative purpose she will have blossomed into a college student ripe for the heartstring plucking (a sympathetic Emilie de Ravin). Coulter has talent individual scenes in “Remember Me” have energy, as do a few of the performances but his hand can be as heavy as stone. Coulter, who has a string of directing credits for HBO shows like “The Sopranos.” Mr.
Freeman also shot “Hollywoodland,” the first feature by Mr. Mostly, you admire the cinematographer Jonathan Freeman’s handiwork. But as the camera lingers over the grimy paint, you know you’re meant to grasp something meaningful about Tyler’s alienation from his bourgeois, better-painted background. The apartment actually looks pretty normal for a college boy flopping in a New York tenement.
Everything comes weighted in significance, from the way Tyler furiously smokes his cigarettes to the camera movements that carefully show off the squalor in which this scion of a wealthy family has chosen to settle. Coulter doesn’t help matters by infusing the movie with grave self-importance. It’s hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters’s absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001.
Along the way, many people die but few matter: most are just part of the warm-up act as well as the means to a shamelessly exploitative end. Along with working double time as one of the movie’s executive producers and its biggest bait, he plays Tyler, a dreary melancholic who poses and broods in this lugubrious romance cum family melodrama about a boy (sad) and a girl (also sad) who heal (eventually) while steaming up the sheets (discreetly). The star, as if you didn’t know, is Robert Pattinson, the moody vampire heartthrob from the “Twilight” series, a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention. In “Remember Me” love means never having to say you’re sorry, particularly to the audience.
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