Reminiscence
Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), is a private investigator of the future trained in the art and science of recalling memories for his clients. But, when the alluring and mysterious, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), enters his world, Nick’s personal apple cart is overturned leading to an unhealthy obsession. In search of lost love and resolved dissonance, where memory takes us, can be a dark but also wonderful place.
Written and Directed by Lisa Joy, one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld, it should come as no surprise that much of the cast and crew of Reminiscence comes directly from the same wellspring, but lets put fears of that redundancy to rest, even though much of the DNA between the two projects is shared, the two aptly and nicely stand in their respective sci-fi corners. That being said, the influences and echos of countless other sci-fi brain exploration flicks do come to mind, which on the larger scale still makes Reminiscence rather reminiscent of many other works and therefor not entirely the freshest idea out of the box. However, on the level it stands, points can be awarded to the leads Jackman, Ferguson along with Thandiwe Newton for holding their own and with Westworld regulars Howard Cummings on Production Design, Paul Cameron on Cinematography, and Ramin Djawadi on Music the recipe is strong enough to make for an enjoyable watch as a matinee or perhaps in the home theatre as the release is also concurrently available on HBO. Reminiscence runs just shy of two hours and is rated PG-13.