![]() It wasn't like she framed Jackman who then had a certain amount of time to clear his name with bad people or the police. We needed a more urgent sense of stakes to increase audience engagement. As expected, the mysterious woman vanishes, and Jackman is determined to find her, but I didn't care about their relationship nor find this woman charming or anything other than a plot catalyst. The problem is that it takes far too long for me to care about the movie. There's an obvious and potent commentary at play about worshiping the past at the expense of the future and the consequences of our actions, played on a personal level and a larger ecological warning. It's an interesting start and of course, as per noir rules, he'll stumble across a mysterious woman (Rebecca Ferguson) with a troubled past that he can't help but fall in love with even as it becomes clear she had ulterior motives for meeting our hero. Set in a future where seas have covered much of Miami, Hugh Jackman plays a memory specialist who helps clients/nostalgia addicts find peace by reliving their past experiences through tech tanks. ![]() Reminiscent of other moody sci-fi/noir mashups like Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor (oh the 1990s), I mostly wish that Reminiscence had been less devoted to film noir trappings and explored more of its intriguing sci-fi setting and implications. Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Drug Material Throughout|Some Strong Language|Strong Violence) As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae's disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love? A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories.
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