there are moments of breathtaking beauty and fascinating weirdness; but the screenplay veers down so many different pathways and never quite comes together, all the way to a coda that should pack an emotional punch but feels tacked-on and underwhelming
Lisa Joy's intriguing but ultimately shallow feature film debut; "Reminiscence" is never not interesting, but Joy leaves a lot of the intriguing issues unsatisfactorily explored
Lisa Joy teams up with Hugh Jackman for a noir that frustrates in many of the same ways as her HBO series; it's an absolute slog to watch Jackman row this way and that in search of something to justify this movie's labored metaphors
it's well-crafted, shot with expert gradations of filtered gloss, and every piece of its story falls into place just so; "Reminiscence" plays like a perfectly calibrated two-hour mirage of things we've seen before
for all its lovely looks, flashes of inspiration and splendid cast, "Reminiscence" mostly serves to remind you of other films — "Minority Report", "Blade Runner" — that did similar future-noir much, much better
a drama about memory that's far too easy to forget; The film exists very much within his serious sci-fi world, cribbing from Inception most notably and at times shamelessly; But there's nothing revelatory or even heart-grabbingly resonant here
"Reminiscence" is a rumination on living in the past, filtered through the detective genre in a fresh and innovative way; A daring and futuristic sci-fi story based in a familiar genre and driven by familiar human emotions: love, loss, betrayal, regret
by Richard Roeper [Chicago Sun-Times ]
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