REMINISCENCE MAKES FORGETTABLE SENSE WITH BAD DIRECTING

🎥🎞Movie Review🎞🎥- REMINISCENCE -(PG13)- STARZ/HBOMAX - Warning: this is another global warming semi-action film! Hugh Jackman stars in this “what could have been” a saucy and sexy thriller…oh boy, this film had all of the right chemistry and actors to actually bring out a fantastic film, but the director seems to have decided to play it safe and not cross the boundaries of sexual tension which could have taken this film to the next level. 

The story line had a brief moment to spell bind the viewer into a new technology, which seemed pretty cool at first, but then became part of a mind twisting element to the film that didn’t need to be there; proving that “sometimes the easiest explanation in a murder mystery is the best way to go.” There are several twists and turns that are presented, where the viewer is shown the obvious answer for the ending in the movie, but the director tries to toss a new angle in the story that miserably tries to make you forget that the entire plot was already presented.

Kudos to Rebecca Ferguson (who plays “Mae) as she marvelously filled the film with some sultry, sexy performances which raised the expectancies of the film at first, but with the soft PG-13 rating, all her energy to present a memorable character are lost by the time the next scene crossed over the screen. She does deliver an emotional message at the end of the film which proved the inner brilliance of her character, which should have been the end of it, but the director took the film into deeper, lost territory by having to reaffirm a “lost lovers dilemma" that horribly extended this shallow love story into another hapless direction of boredom.

Jackman tries to perform at a top notch dramatic level and the films failure is not all his fault, but his supporting cast just seems to be going through the motions with very little emotion at all. Add to that, a lazy and boring shootout in a bar and a fight scene or two that truly wasn’t needed, well…it just goes to show you that it truly doesn’t matter who is in your film if your director is only relying on digital and blue screen effects to make the film look cool and darkly futuristic.

Don’t bother watching this pile of shit, but if you do feel the need to watch it, be sure you have a real action movie lined up to follow the end credits to this crap.

⭐️ ⭐️ 💫 [2.5 Stars]