Memory (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Billy Zane, Ann Margret, Dennis Hopper, Tricia Helfer, Terry Chen
Screenwriter: Bennett Davlin, Anthony Badalucco
Producer: Anthony Badalucco, Jesse Newhouse
DVD Info
Release:
May 22, 2007
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital DTS 5.1 Surround - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - Director's Commentary
- Featurette - The Making Of MEMORY
- Interview - Cast & Crew Interviews
- Outtakes
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Reviews
There's an intriguing premise buried in MEMORY ... [but] he execution leaves something to be desired.
Considerably better -- and far more intriguing -- than most entry-level horror pics, marrying a retro B-movie setup with the ghostly obsessions of recent Asian extreme cinema.
The fact that it raises worthy questions concerning experience and recollection, as well as cultural, legal, and political definitions of self with regard to memories%u2014well, that's sort of too bad. They're lost amid forgettable plotty detritus.
The movie draws upon so many influences -- stylized Hitchcock suspense, surreal Asian horror and the Gothic romance of Britain's Hammer Studios -- it's easier to follow the reference points than the plot.
Stylish and twisty, but not clever enough to support its more outrageous plot machinations.
Filled with labored exposition, stilted line readings and the most unconvincing romantic hookup since Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
A bizarre, mind-bending psychological thriller, filled with red herrings.
To what niche does this movie aspire, Michael Crichton sci-fi chiller, Ed Wood camp or neo-'60s grand guignol for former leading ladies of a certain age? You decide.
Adapting his own novel, [director] Davlin seems blessedly unaware of how silly his story is, attacking it with such escalating melodramatic fervor that Memory rises from the disastrously campy to the bizarrely hypnotic.
... tosses us so many hints and red herrings that, by the end, we really don't care who turns out to be the killer. All solutions are equally satisfying, which is the same thing as being equally unsatisfying.
The director states in the film's press notes that 'all the science you will see in this motion picture is cutting edge,' a statement that holds true if you simply replace the word 'science' with 'silliness.'
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