Do not see this movie! Review of "Remember Me" opening today (March 12)

Remember Me
Director: Allen Coulter
With: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Tate Ellington, et al.

I can’t stress strongly enough that you do not see this awful movie.  I will gladly spoil the vile ending on this shameless piece of crap.  The writer, Will Fetters, and the director, Allen Coulter, should be ashamed of themselves.  This movie exploits human misery for a cheap soap-opera of a story, including the worst mass murder in US history.
The main attraction for this movie is Robert Pattinson, a flavor-of-the-month pretty boy from the vampire series whose acting gifts are modest at best, consisting mostly of assorted pouts and poses.  He seems to have prepared for this role by watching James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and aping all of Dean’s mannerisms.
The movie begins with a woman’s senseless murder on the New York subway in 1991, witnessed by her 11-year-old daughter.  Her father (Cooper) is a cop who is called to the scene.  Then, the whole thing shifts to “Ten Years Later,” and I began to squirm at the possibility that...  But, they wouldn't do that, would they?
She meets a neurotic young man named Tyler (Pattinson) whose own family has been broken by a suicide, which Tyler blames on his absent power-broker father (Brosnan).  So, we have two damaged young people, two damaged families, and a meandering, occasionally involving story about them and their problems dealing with parents and dead relatives.  Their relationship has its ups and downs, and the families are dragged along.  About halfway through this, I whispered to another critic “This had better start going somewhere soon.”
But, no.  The story just strings us along, and makes us think that everything will be fine, until it gets to the point where, yes, as I feared, they contrive to get Tyler into his father’s office in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  At least they didn’t show us the planes striking the building, a surprising and singular display of good taste.  They did show the ash falling like snow, and Tyler’s notebook among the debris.
I can’t tell you how revolting this was.  It is not poignant, it is not ironic, it is not justifiable to drag this horrible event in as a resolution to this crappy movie.  I can’t tell you how I wanted to strangle everyone involved.  This is a new low in mining human tragedy for profit.
If there were a grade lower than F-, I would give it.  Do not see this movie!
F-