Robert Pattinson's "Remember Me" Reviewed by VG (Norway)

VG's review of Remember Me (4 out of 6 on the dice)

Review by Øystein David Johansen

Translation by Maryann Bjordal

”Angry young man”

Robert Pattinson as a young, sweaty and angry New Yorker is so far much better than an anemic vampire hero with high hair, but he cannot escape the difficult love.

In ”Remember Me” he combines anger and vulnerability in a way that will impress far more than the teenage girls that has been following him since the ”Twilight” phenomenon hit the big time. Pattinson captures the essence of ”a drifty young man” with bravura, in a movie that moves between the border of the shamelessly melodramatic and the tiresome pretentiousness.

He portrays Tyler, a son of a rich man with a tendency to get into trouble, of a family on the brink of collapse after the oldest son's suicide. A silly bet with his roommate Aidan leads him to Ally - from the opposite side of the social specter, but she also has deep wounds in her soul after her mother being killed ten years ago. Will two daddy complexes be healed and will the young disillusioned find their spark of life together?

This twist of the ”When Harry Met Sally” bet is an intrigue tried out many times before - in far less vain varieties (”She's All That” in 1999 is one example). ”Remember Me tries partially too hard to distance itself from these with Ghandi quotes via voice-over and dialogue that is so clever it has got to be written. Other times - like when Ally is brought along to one of New York's most snobby restaurants for the first time - the observations are more elegant and subtle.

Both the family drama and does work anyways when the vanity is toned down - and slowly but surely we start to care about what happens with these characters. Why is a pompous end point of enormous patriotic dimensions added is totally incomprehensible. It still doesn't matter to destroy the impression of a solid youth drama - mostly for those of you who laughs at regular ”Romcoms".

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Big thanks to MaryAnn for translating this for us!

Entertainment Focus At The "Remember Me" Press Conference With Robert Pattinson

Entertainment Focus At The "Remember Me" Press Conference With Robert Pattinson

EF was fortunate enough to be invited along to the premiere of Robert Pattinson’s latest drama Remember Me, which is released in cinemas today. We caught up with Robert, his co-star Emilie de Ravin and one of the film’s producers Nick Osborne as they discussed the making of one of this year’s finest films.

Robert Pattinson had been looking for a new direction between Twilight sequels and literally read hundreds of scripts before picking Remember Me. He liked the naturalistic dialogue of the story and how the story dealt with grief. He also noted that this character starts and ends the movie as pretty much the same guy- it was a young part devoid of the usual Hollywood transitions when everything ties up nicely at the end. He joked that he doesn’t really like anything so picking a next project was easy. He clearly isn’t driven by money either so when the opportunity for Remember Me came along, he knew it was the right project. Robert also feels like these types of movies aren’t around very much today and saw a gap in the market to do such a narrative.

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Entertainment Focus also did a review of "Remember Me". Here's a snippet.

Robert Pattinson hands in an accomplished performance here full of substance and worth. He is most definitely a character-actor on the basis of this and he manages to handle the complexities of Tyler Hawkins perfectly. Remember Me will hopefully go some way to prove to non-believers that Pattinson is a genuine talent that will no doubt have a diverse, successful and long-lasting career in the future. He is supported beautifully by Emilie de Ravin who manages to make Ally Craig more than just a love interest; she is the catalyst for Tyler to find peace in his life. de Ravin takes a break from Lost and reminds us all that she is a capable actress with an ability to raise her game when called upon. The two share an organic chemistry that easily convinces us that Tyler and Ally are a believable couple. You want them to end up together and you want them to save each other such is the intensity of their onscreen romance. Pierce Brosnan also does well in fleshing out the supporting role of Tyler’s highly-strung but conflicted father Charles Hawkins. He manages to build a great rapport with Pattinson and their father-son exchanges are a joy to watch unfold.

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Robert Pattinson's "Remember Me" Reviewed By LoveFilm

Robert Pattinson's "Remember Me" Reviewed By LoveFilm

If you're a complete "Remember Me" Virgin and have absolutely no clue about the film then skip this until you've seen it and please email me and tell me how the hell you managed to stay spolier free!
Otherwise work away there's not really any spoilers in this!

It's not an especially memorable title...

But Allen Coulter’s film about a troubled youth isn’t what you might expect – especially if that happens to be a saccharine love story tailored to star Robert Pattinson’s tweenie Twilight fans.

US critics have not been kind, but Master Pattinson looks like the real deal to me. Granted he’s not going in for a radical makeover – his skin doesn’t glisten in the sunshine, and his eyes aren’t gold, but otherwise Tyler Keats Hawkins (‘Jesus, your parents are pretentious!’) outwardly resembles a more disheveled version of Edward Cullen. But that’s okay: Pattinson is easy on the eye, give the fans what they want. He’s also charismatic, a rare Englishman who can pull of an American accent without strain, and (given decent material) a very capable actor. Who knew? (Kate: Well we did, but we're one of those special things called fans ! ;-))

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