BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Sabah Hensley
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Lee Eisenberg
The cast members explained in interviews that the main theme of Bennett Davlin's "Memory" is the idea of seeing something through someone else's eyes, as the main character (Billy Zane) does: an otherwise benevolent person suddenly has memories of committing horrible acts. This is not a slasher movie or home invasion movie. There's the issue of what has been hidden. Parts of the movie did trick me a little bit, and I found it to be a pretty clever flick. It's not frightening or anything, but I liked how they laid everything out.OK, so we could be cynical and say that this is a totally improbable story. So what? The movie is understood to be improbable. I still say that it's a very clever plot. Above all, it's great to see Dennis Hopper (RIP) and Ann-Margret still playing such interesting roles. Worth seeing.
board-5
A boring,incoherent,long movie,with bad dialogs,and screenplay.Do your self a favor,and stay away from this movie.The sentence before this was a real warning,today you can find bad movies with some entertaining value,but as far as I recognized,this movie was just a long and boring effort from people don't know how to engage the audience.After I've seen this,I had a feeling that this was just a footage with some element that the movie needs,but the incoherent creators don't know how to edit it,after they shoot-ed the footage.I'am sure there are lot of underrated serial-killer movies out there without a good marketing,but this was not that.Don't see this film.
jscanlan22
For a first time director / producer / writer team this is not a bad movie. It has its rough parts, it is not a polished as a production from a major studio or development group. But that is some of its charm.The story holds together throughout the movie and builds to a climax and letdown. The DVD extra features explain how long the process was to make this movie. The writer director story boarded the whole thing. The production values are very high for their budget. They shot what they needed and did not waste much time on extra footage.The plot twist at the end was somewhat confusing because of all the visuals that you had to catch to understand that the killer was not his father but his mother, and the person he thought was his mother was not. Once those concepts fall into place the ending becomes clear. This movie needs to be seen a couple of times to catch the subtle clues.This is not guerrilla film making - with a single set and some of the filming done on the cuff. A good example semi-guerrilla film making is the film by Darren Aronofsky in 2000 "Requium for a Dream": that cost $4.5 million 5 years ago. Aronofskys' first non-student movie was Pi in 1998. It was done in black and white for $60k in 1998.An interesting start of a career, lets see what they can bring us in the future.
baz-ish
Reading the various posts regarding this film, I have to offer my apologies to the young actors who appeared in it, given that I cannot find any redeeming qualities within it. Its a shame that any aspiring young actor would eagerly anticipate the release of this film, even if they are part of the cast ........Anyway, I guess I was put off this film early on, by the line of dialogue which stated the natives had been around for 2 million years ! Oh, and Dennis Hopper had been wearing the same training shoes since 1971, and .......... & etc.So there are a few actors whose names you will recognise, certainly, thats where the budget was spent, yet sadly there is no evidence of value for money.But please do try and watch this film, they clearly need the money for a better production crew, and besides, any film you watch after this will seem superb.
