Chiffmonkey Reviews

Remember Me (2014)

A Bizarre Mix of Amazing and Terrible

[8/10 · 27 April 2016]

I've never been so annoyed by one single element of something completely and utterly letting down the rest as much as with Remember Me.

The setting is absorbing. The casting is spot-on. The script is natural yet interesting (except when the plot is involved). The cinematography is creepy and the sense of isolation is overpowering. The music is beautiful and haunting.

And yet the plot is dire drivel, that doesn't make much sense. Constantly people are being put in situations that simply shouldn't happen. The horror elements also simply aren't scary, they're laughably predictable. They should've stuck to creepy which they handled masterfully.

It's perhaps the best polished turd in existence.

Black Mirror: The National Anthem (2011) Season 1, Episode 1

Thought provoking and emotional. Great performances.

[10/10 · 4 December 2011]

BC UK, quite clearly you're not one for viewing between the lines. The point of this film is not it's plot but it's implications for just how plausible this event is, and just how little privacy or control of information we have these days. It's an 'open your eyes' kind of film.

Superb acting, writing and camera-work. The choice of people to show as 'joe average's were well thought out and don't seem clichéd. Also the setup is genius in it's simplicity. Genuinely thought provoking TV.

My only criticism is of the ending which I think should have ended with the 'twist' regarding the kidnap, with the reaction from the PM's wife put beforehand. Then again I don't know how that could make chronological sense.