Remember

Usually, when I'm perusing unfamiliar titles to watch I stick strictly to the horror genre or a specific vein of the Sci-Fi genre. For whatever reason I can better stomach the poor movies of those genres. I almost feel like it's a duty to sniff them out and expose them if they exist. As for other genres; they must be good movies. I don't have the patience to sit through them if they're not. So, deciding to watch Remember was well outside of my element. I watched solely based upon the IMDb rating. I didn't even read the synopsis or the reviews--the rating was terrific so I watched.

I'm glad I made that decision.

The movie is akin to Memento in that the main character, Zev (Christopher Plummer), has dementia and he can't remember things yet he goes out on a quest to find the murderer of his family. It was almost sad at times watching this nonagenarian stumble about from place to place looking for the Nazi soldier responsible for killing his family in Auschwitz. It had my attention as it was because I was highly interested in knowing just what he would do once he found the 90-something-year-old Nazi. The ending will not disappoint you.

This movie was very cleverly written and directed. Christopher Plummer did a fantastic job as a slow-witted aged hospital patient. Just the way the entire package was put together was tremendous. This was an excellent, excellent movie.