SPOILERS after the jump!
I can appreciate that Remember Me is accused of having “tired story lines” or happening in “bored to death land”, a bad performance from Robert Pattinson, and having a “disrespectful end”. What I can say is: this movie doesn’t follow rules and this is not necessarily wrong. It is like when you learn how to write an essay, somebody tells you that a well-written paper “must” follow an acceptable format. Remember Me is an excellent movie and I understand why critics are bashing it, it is because don’t follow the acceptable rules. I think that this point of view is wrong used in the case of Remember Me. Like I said in my previous review, we experienced a suicide in our family, and I can tell that when you have to go thru this kind of tragic experiences (like mine or murder) the most probable is that nothing that you have to live follow the “rules”. Your world is completely shaken by angst, regret, guilt, and you never know how are you going to react everyday. This movie is a real portray of what a loss like this represents. Please, don’t be worry about see it because our pain is not contagious. This is not the swine flu. This is just a real and fair portray, that is unchained by the fact that the main character, Tyler, left someone in to his world. Another thing that is hard to read is that critics said that Remember Me is “predictable”. Right now, I live in San Diego, CA area. Recently the police found the corps of two high school girls raped and murdered, and I don’t think that any person can tell to their two unfortunate families how “predictable” their suffering will be, or when this must end. I am sorry; I don’t mean to be rude. I am just making my point, is very frustrating to read that someone in this kind of tragedy can be qualified as “unhappy people”, “depressed”, “bored” or “still sad after 8 years”. Sadly, I must clarify that to live a experience like this is not a choice that people make, it just happen.
Second thing. This is something that critics will not like: I must say that Robert Pattinson is a great actor if he didn’t live this kind of experience, because he understood and explained to audience our feelings. I think I heard a girl expressing about him, she told: “he sees and he listens”. I must add, “he feels” and the most important thing “he transmits”. I pay more attention and my opinion is that Robert Pattinson in his performance as an actor has a very powerful innate instinct to transmit feelings to others. Hollywood and critics can be pissed off because this not comes from an acting technique. Is an innate personal skill that combined with his determination gives an instant connection with the public. In Remember Me he gives a great acting performance.
(Spoiler Alert: stop reading) Finally the end is not disrespectful, because the real end is in a few seconds’ scenes: she overcome, they overcome. This is the only “happy ending” that we, the people involved in tragedy, can aspire to. We will never forget, we will always remember, and somewhere, someday and somehow we will learn to diminish the pain for the loss, and start to handle it, in order to move on. We will always remember and overcome the bad and toxic feelings. I understand the mixed reactions because it is related with a national tragedy, but it’s done in a respectful way. Every person has inside his or her own grief rhythm, and if the end would be different, audience would not connect whit the possible overcome; which is the main message of the movie, and I can see that general people understood this better than critics.
Remember Me is a great movie, a piece of art. You must see it to have your own opinion. You can say that I am bias, but I think that so far is the better drama movie with a meaning in many years.
Thinking of Rob 
This is the first time I am posting but your review touch a spot in me. I totally agreed with you. I think alot of people (critics) are looking at the film on the surface but not really watching and trying to understand what they are seeing. They just don’t want to admit it touched them. The acting came from the heart for the cast you can tell. Totally awesome Guess what people that’s what real life is like messy, complicated. Please go see this movie DO NOT LISTEN TO anybody telling you it’s bad make your own choices.
I thought what you said regarding the movie Remember Me was very relevant. I too felt that it was a very fine movie. I thought that Robert Pattinson showed enormous depth and range as an actor. He was quietly funny at times and managed to display this sense of contained rage and deep feelings. I felt his suffering. He managed to convey that to the audience.
Robert never trained to become an actor but I agree wholly that he is an instinctive actor. He is still a work in progress, he knows that, and that is very much to his advantage. I believe, he will emerge a better actor in Bel Ami. He would learn a lot fron Declan Donellan.
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Yes, the critics have given Remember Me a negative grade. However, I never listened to them since I never agree with them on any movie. I saw Remember Me, and I was moved by the emotions by the entire cast. Rob has come a long ways since Twilight, he is learning and on his way on becoming an icon in the entertainment industry. Rob has good instincts as an actor. My favorite scene is between Tyler and Caroline. The bedroom scene where Tyler is reading to his sister after her traumatic experience. Something about the bond between Caroline and Tyler is very special. Caroline (Ruby) is a brilliant actress for someone so young. She will make many great movies. I hope Rob and Ruby will be able to do other projects together. One final point, Remember Me is worth seeing…it will make you think twice.
I agree, Remember Me is a very special movie and one that doen’t come by very often, if at all. Why the critics have been so harsh with it I have no idea it seems to me totally unfounded. Perhaps their minds have been polluted with so much Hollywood “fluff” movies that they simply can’t relate to anything more meaningfull. This movie has the potential to become a classic and Robert’s acting is supurb, brilliant. If you haven’t seen it yet you owe it to yourself to go and judge for yourself.
I agree with your statement that Rob has an “innate personal skill” when it comes to acting. I see this manifested in his facial expressions and body movements. His eyes alone convey so much emotion and for some reason, critics don’t like that. I don’t understand. I also think that he connects very well with the other actors. I can’t imagine anyone not wanting these skills. I hope this movie and Rob’s performance gets more recognition at least from the viewing public because it’s getting hammered by most critics.