Reminiscence
This week's movie rental was Reminiscence ...
a 2021 American neo-noir science fiction thriller ....The film stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson n .... In the near future, climate change has caused the seas to rise and flood Miami. Extreme daytime temperatures have forced most of the population to live at night. Nick Bannister and his friend Watts operate a business that allows people to relive memories ...
I chose the film because it was science fiction and because of Hugh Jackman. Sadly, the plot was so convoluted that I had trouble following it and the dialogue was kind of unrealistic. Jackman was good, of course, and so was Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible), but they couldn't save the movie. Still, it was visually interesting and you might like it if you are a fan of Jackman's.
You can read Richard Roeper's review in the Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Reminiscence’: Too bad Hugh Jackman’s sci-fi noir about a memory machine is so forgettable ...
It’s “The Maltese Falcon” meets “Inception” somewhere in the “Vanilla Sky” on the way to “Chinatown” in the inventive and ambitious but wildly convoluted and ultimately disappointing sci-fi noir “Reminiscence,” which careens this way and that, and this way and that, before running off the rails ...
posted by crystal | 12:14 AM
4 Comments:
! loved Hugh Jackman in "Les Miserables".
Hi Katherine. I've never seen that one. Is that the one with Russell Crowe too?
Yes, Russell Crowe was in it. His character is the "heavy", Jean Valjean's (that was Hugh Jackman's character) nemesis. I had read the book by Victor Hugo as a teenager. The movie actually followed the book's story line pretty closely. Of course the book was a big, messy, 19th century novel, so there was a lot that didn't make it into the movie. The movie was a musical, which sort of works. If you can get it on streaming services, it is worth watching.
I'll give it a try. Hugh Jackman would be good in a musical - he has done a few, including Oklahoma.
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