Remember Me

Directed by Allen Coulter

(PG-13)

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Remember Me is one of those cynical Hollywood weepies that “crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its clichés,” said Wesley

Morris in The Boston Globe. Twilight’s Robert Pattinson and Lost’s Emilie de Ravin star as troubled New York University students living in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan. The two meet when Pattinson’s Tyler accepts a friend’s bet and asks out de Ravin’s Ally, the daughter of the cop who has just arrested him in a street fight. They soon discover they are both in mourning (Tyler’s brother died; Ally witnessed her mother’s murder). Then they fall for each other. If you feel like you’ve seen this movie before, it’s because you have, said Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. Screenwriter Will Fetters delivers a flimsy script packed with plot contrivances and character types instead of real people. Even the film’s tag line, “Live in the moments,” is a cliché. The camera loves Pattinson, but director Allen Coulter seems to have banked his entire film on “those chiseled cheeks and moody eyes,” said Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angles Times. This is supposed to be “a movie, not a magazine spread.”