Metascore
40 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 29
  2. Negative: 11 out of 29
  1. There is, quite simply, a rather refreshing ordinariness to Remember Me in the unflashy, knuckle-down attention it gives to character development and the building of plausible and involving family and friend dynamics.
  2. 75
    A well-made movie. I cared about the characters. I felt for them. Liberate them from the plot's destiny, which is an anvil around their necks, and you might have something.
  3. Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    75
    Not a bad film. I'm going to stick my neck out and call it a good one - a small, dense chamber study of unhappy people looking for hope in the darkness, often literally.
  4. The scenes between Pattinson and de Ravin exude genuine charm.
  5. Overwritten and overcooked, Remember Me still manages a few explosive sequences between Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan.
  6. 63
    Coulter wants to explore the act of mourning as a theme, and how death sometimes reminds us that every minute of life should be savored. On that level, Remember Me certainly succeeds.
  7. Charged up with stormy melodrama.
  8. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    63
    Overall, it's a gently bittersweet and affecting portrait.
  9. Reviewed by: Ian Nathan
    60
    So the boy can act -- this is the best thing he's done.
  10. For those looking for the rare romantic youth drama without vampyric overtones or other gimmicks, Remember Me should satisfy and it works as a much-needed change of pace for the talented Pattinson who remains one of the most watchable of our young stars.
  11. The dialogue can drive you crazy with its self-consciousness.
  12. 50
    There's more contrived melodrama in these two hours than romance fans could reasonably hope for.
  13. Remember Me could have been a decent family drama, especially considering its setting, but that was not to be. Too bad, because the romance is highly forgettable.
  14. a horrific misstep in the branding of Robert Pattinson. The erstwhile teen vampire, who daringly portrayed gay surrealist Salvador Dalí in last year's "Little Ashes," lurches backward into a pile of romantic rubbish.
  15. Pattinson could have the makings of a brilliant career, something more than the hot streak he's got going as the "it" guy of the moment. The same problems plague the film, which is beautifully shot but its emotional potential unrealized.
  16. Reviewed by: Mary Pols
    50
    If I had a daughter of impressionable age, I'd rather have her weeping over this mildly tasteless romance than the nonsense of "Twilight."
  17. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    50
    The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly.
  18. 42
    The major problem with Pattinson's ascendancy to the Dean throne: His soulfulness is a pose, an effect achieved more by hair and makeup (and yes, genetics) than the scenes where he's required to emote at high volume.
  19. In attitude, if not aptitude, Robert Pattinson in Remember Me comes across like a latter-day James Dean.
  20. As a shameless contraption of ridiculously sad things befalling attractive people, the engorged romantic tragedy Remember Me stands tall between those towering monuments to teen-oriented cinematic misery, Love Story and Twilight.
  21. Hoping for a little emotional manipulation with your popcorn? Look no further.
  22. Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    30
    There's an insult-to-injury quality to a plain bad movie with a "seize the day" message (Remember Me's tagline: "Live in the Moments"), which heckles you with all the other things you should or could be doing while you're marking time waiting on the credits.
  23. It's hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters's absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001. But Mr. Coulter doesn't help matters by infusing the movie with grave self-importance.
  24. Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay.
  25. 25
    The brooding RPatz doesn't bite. But his movie does.
  26. 25
    The dullness of this writing is more than matched by the dull look achieved by director Allen Coulter, who appears to have shot the film through a piece of yard-sale Tupperware.
  27. 25
    The film's tone is all wrong, the pacing is dead and the veering between sex, sadness and sado-masochistic violence is enough to give you motion sickness. It's a bad movie.
  28. Bless you, R.Patz & Co., because this gloriously steaming pile is officially in the bad-movies-we-love pantheon.
  29. 12
    The movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 158 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 69
  2. Negative: 10 out of 69
  1. SharonG
    10
    This movie has left a lasting impression on me. Robert Pattinson was mesmerizing, but the entire cast was good. The story was beautifully crafted and the scenes of New York ranged from gritty to postcard beautiful. I have gone back to see it several times since it opened with various friends. To a person everyone was extremely impressed with the film. I hope movie goers will give it a chance and not believe some of the more outlandish reviews. It is a well done movie with heart that exploits nothing. Full Review »
  2. It was simply a beautiful movie. I don't know why people would get offended by it. The whole cast did an amazing build up, you really, really felt for them. The movie just shows perfectly how can almost anyone can vanish and that you must care for the ones as if its the last day. The relationship between Tyler and Ally is just different from the other relationships they now show on some movies, it's not about only being attracted to each other, but to know them fully. I simply loved this movie. Full Review »
  3. JenS
    5
    [***SPOILER***]Really REALLY depressing! it had like 3 deaths in it one from a suicide, one from a murder, and one from a 9/11/2001 death. SAD! it also had a crappy ending! The main character dies. also there is about like two fights a car fight! good but sad me and my friend were like up all night depressed and talking about sad events in the USA. Full Review »