Metacritic Film

Memory

Starring Billy Zane, Ann-Margret, Dennis Hopper, Tricia Helfer, Terry Chen, and Alonso Oyarzun

MPAA RATING: R for language and frightening images

Echo Bridge Entertainment LLC
Drama  |  Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller
98 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 23, 2007

While lecturing in Brazil, Dr. Taylor Briggs (Zane), an American authority on memory, consults on a patient found deep in the Amazon. During the exam, Taylor is accidentally exposed to a mysterious substance which unlocks a series of memories in his brain. Memories that are not his. The memory of a killer who committed crimes before Taylor was even born. A killer who is much closer than you may think. (Echo Bridge Entertainment & 3210 Films Inc.)

WRITTEN BY
Anthony Badalucco
Bennett Davlin

DIRECTED BY
Bennett Davlin

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

26 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
Oddly enjoyable at its most implausible.
50 TV Guide
Stylish and twisty, but not clever enough to support its more outrageous plot machinations.
50 Variety Peter Debruge
It's actually 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.
20 Village Voice Tim Grierson
While the mystery doesn't engage, Davlin keeps you off guard with his film's weird rhythms, bouncing from family drama to romance to macabre mood piece without much warning. How he and Zane manage to make such dreck almost tolerable is the real mystery here.
10 The Hollywood Reporter
A muddled and routine murder mystery tricked up with a science fiction gimmick that wouldn't pass muster for a "Twilight Zone" episode. The writing is poor, but the direction is even poorer. This is a film to delete from one's memory bank.
10 The New York Times
Memory is an inane, sluggish mess.

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