Liam Neeson stars as a revenge-driven assassin with Alzheimer's in 'Memory,' directed by Martin Campbell and co-starring Guy Pearce.
“Memory” is a remake of a 2003 Belgian crime thriller, “De zaak Alzheimer,” based on the book by Jef Geeraerts. Dario Scardapane adapted the screenplay, which is fairly faithful to the original. Neeson plays Alex Lewis, the aforementioned assassin with Alzheimer’s, who’s getting out of the game after one last gig.
Simultaneously, the film follows the FBI agent from the raid, Vincent Serra , who now feels guilty about killing the girl’s father and leaving her stuck in a detention center, about to be deported to Mexico.
“Memory” has a decent director in Campbell and a great cast , but a crippling case of a bad script that can’t manage to make us care about any of these characters. The plot zigs and zags between Alex’s convoluted quest, Vincent and his motley crew of FBI investigators, and this corporate elite real estate trafficking ring, but doesn’t take the time to tell us who these people are, what they want or why they’re doing any of this.
The original Belgian film made high-ranking government officials the villains, but wealthy businesspeople as powerful and depraved sexual predators is much more American, and the mother/son conspiracy calls to mind the terrible twosome of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Not that “Memory” intends any particularly trenchant social commentary such as this.
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