3/14/2023 0 Comments Reminisce reviews![]() ![]() But it never finds the suspense or sensuality of that genre. This wannabe works oh so hard to be a contemporary detective noir, with its shadows, damsel in distress and brooding narration. Rated PG-13 (strong violence, drug material throughout, sexual content and some strong language). Someone is executed (off screen).Running time: 114 minutes. And at the same time in the real world he’s given the equivalent of a memory overdose while hooked to the memory machine-he’s left to thrash around, mentally reliving his agony and torment over and over. A man is guided back to a memory of torment when he was covered in fuel and lit on fire. For instance, Nick shoves a needle into someone’s eye, but the camera cuts away before impact.Ī woman jumps to her death. These battles are lightly bloody but not gory. Another man is shot in the back just before killing Nick. One guy goes flying across the room after being hit with a shotgun blast. Watts is said to be an excellent shot during the war, and she proves it in a gunfight with a room full of thugs and drug dealers. One man gets his arm caught inside a piano and is dragged down by the piano into a huge flooded amphitheater. He engages in a long chase and fight with a large opponent, they leap from buildings, smash windows, tumble down a staircase and lash at each other with fists and various weapons (such as a hammer, a lead pipe and a knife). Two large men attempt to drown Nick in a tank of live eels. And he barely keeps from being shot and killed once or twice. He’s manhandled repeatedly-while throwing punches and elbows-for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nick doesn’t seek out violence, but it tends to find him in the midst of his investigations anyway. We see the memories of several people recalling passed loved ones (including a male couple holding hands). Joe is generally always shirtless or wearing an open front shirt. In a memory, we also see that Mae had a relationship years before with a drug dealer named St. “Four years I’ve worked here, and you’re the first man who’s mentioned my voice,” she smilingly replies. When visiting her nightclub for the first time, Nick mentions how lovely Mae’s voice is. During one of Mae’s memories we see a sex toy on her bedroom floor. She lies face down with a bare back on a picnic blanket. The camera cuts away, and Nick awakens shirtless in her bed. Passionate kissing is seen, and his shirt is removed in a sensuous scene in which she also straddles him on a chair. At other times, other men and women climb into the tank, too, wearing skimpy bathing suits.Įventually, Nick and Mae connect physically. When she first comes in to have her memory searched, she disrobes completely (though we see only her bare back and shoulders, while Nick looks away from her public nudity) before getting into the memory tank (much like a water-filled isolation tank). One, for instance, bares her shoulders and upper chest, another her whole back. Accordingly, we see her in a variety of slinky dresses designed for their seductiveness. ![]() Not when there is still a chance to make new memories with Mae. Nick is an expert at manipulating other people’s pasts, but he sure isn’t going to waste his time fretting over his own. He’d keep digging, he’d look in every dark corner, search every dark memory until he’d found a trace of her once again. Nick was determined to find the woman he loved. He’d never really known “that woman” all that well anyway, Watts reminded him. After a few months of searching, Watts was telling Nick to let it go, let her go. She made him feel full.įor some unknown reason, Mae disappeared. And suddenly, he wasn’t so much interested in looking back, as he was in looking forward. In their grimy, waterlogged world of Miami, where they’re constantly wading through knee-deep water and sleeping all day to escape the sweltering heat, helping people to relive past memories is a good business to be in.Īfter helping the woman in red, Mae, find her keys, though, things shifted for Nick. Then after the war ended and the great environmental disaster hit, Nick and Watts had teamed up to make a business of it. He first used the memory device, and his abilty to ease someone into their past, back in the service, while interrogating enemies. In fact, taking people back to relive their memories is his job. That may seem like an odd thing to ask someone for, but helping people remember is Nick’s specialty. She wanted to remember where she’d left her keys, she said. But Nick couldn’t help buy hold up a hand and say, “We have time for one more.” This beautiful woman with her red hair and classy dress simply stopped him dead in his tracks. Nick’s partner, Watts, called out that they were closed. His days hadn’t been all that fruitful and rewarding lately anyway, but today he was just shot. Nick was tired, ready for the day to end.
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