REMINISCENE

In the future, Miami is a city underwater. As such, the future looks bleak, so society now turns to the past in order to cope via nostalgia (a water tank system people use to access and relive memories from their past). One day Mae, a nightclub singer, (Rebecca Ferguson) comes in to find her misplaced keys. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackson) who oversees the nostalgia operation, quickly falls for the beauty. They soon develop a romance until suddenly Mae disappears without a trace. Head over heels for Mae, Nick frantically searches for her, while unexpectedly, uncovering a plot involving a rich property owner that has dire consequences for everyone involved. I'll give the writers credit for creating a new and enticing idea on paper, and even the initial setup worked; however, once Mae went missing and each memory of Nick's seemed to be another memory within a memory, it was easy to quickly lose interest. By the midway point, you're wondering what happened to Mae and for this story to be over with. A shame as the film had promise. 4/10