Memory (2022)

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This week on Catching Up On Cinema, Trevor reviews Martin Campbell's, Memory (2022)!

A remake of The Alzheimer Case (2003), which in turn was based on a novel by Belgian author Jef Geeraerts, Memory (2022) boasts a strong concept, but largely fails to reach beyond lower-mid tier of post-Taken era Liam Neeson actioners.

Well shot and acted, with winning performances from both Neeson and genre stalwarts, Guy Pearce and Ray Stevenson, Memory's biggest liability comes in the form of its stilted plotting, which in turn springs from the lack of screentime devoted to its most compelling elements.

Hardly an action film, Memory features just enough pyrotechnics and fisticuffs to keep most viewers from nodding off, though most of its thrills come in brief, albeit well shot and edited bursts that thankfully do well to conceal the stiffness of the performers.

Bogged down by a highly political and inflammatory core plot regarding human trafficking and child pornography, Memory is a dull conspiracy thriller that, in the opinion of this reviewer, would have been better served being presented as a simple, yet intimate character study.

Not an outright miss, but far from exemplary by the lofty standards of both the on and offscreen talent, Memory, sadly, is likely to be one of the least memorable of recent Neeson films.

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