Basically…
Christine (Nicole Kidman) is an amnesiac and wakes up
every day with no memory of recent years because of a traumatic accident. She
keeps a video camera diary to help her piece together her daily life and work
out what caused her memory loss, which in turn forces her to question everyone
around her.
In other words…
Memento with a different type of camera.
The main men and leading ladies…
Nicole Kidman is back to her best with shades
of her performance in The Others
while Colin Firth continues to be creepy and cold. This is a far distance from
when the pair worked together on The Railway Man earlier this year with this
being Kidman’s chance to shine.
In the chair…
28 Days Later writer
Rowan Joffe took on the popular novel by S. J. Watson after being approached by
Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free and successfully turned this
compelling, dark and gripping story to the big screen.
So…?
Watching the trailer
you can’t help but think it’s a Memento rip off. In a way it is, but there’s a
limit to how original amnesiac films can be considering so many have been made.
In the end, this film is a lot less of a headache than the Christopher Nolan
masterpiece. It’s less challenging on the brain and instead of working
backwards with Polaroids this moves forwards with a digital camera. But despite
it not being in quite the same league, there are some really hard hitting
scenes – like when Ben is sitting outside the house on the phone. It’s dark,
it’s tense and keeps you sweating until all is revealed. If you want to be
pedantic you could pick as a few plot holes but it’s enjoyable on the surface
and ties up a lot more loose ends than the book.
Worth the money?
Enjoyable but save
it for DVD.
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