Movie review: Reminiscence
REMINISCENCE (NC16)
For a feature film debut from Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy, whose husband and brother-in-law are writer Jonathan Nolan and director Christopher Nolan respectively, one would expect it to challenge the mind.
But sci-fi noir film Reminiscence, currently showing in cinemas, is no mind-bender with a jaw-dropping twist. Instead, this genre entry is disappointingly middling and ironically, unmemorable.
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind who helps clients access lost memories using a special machine, becomes dangerously obsessed with a mysterious femme fatale (Rebecca Ferguson).
As he fights to find the truth about her disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy.
Jackman and Ferguson, who first sizzled together in The Greatest Showman, share steamy chemistry and a fateful love story set against a sunken Miami coast that resembles a gritty Venice.
But perhaps Joy's close connection to the Nolan brothers does her a disservice, because this is nowhere near the standards of Memento, The Prestige and Interstellar.
Reminiscence is so derivative, you will forget about it as soon as it ends. - JEANMARIE TAN
Score : 2.5/5
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