REMEMORY (2024)

3 stars

Miracle Media. Digital. 29th June

aka Dead Man Memory

The film starts straight in to the action with French cop David (Michaël Cohen) in Thailand on a police raid at the docks – ostensibly as an observer. It isn’t long before, as the gunfire erupts, he becomes part of the melee. Unfortunately their main target escapes.

Of course the Police Chief, like in most movies, is not happy – with several of the men dead. They had known they were coming.

Later at a Thai temple David observes a young boy called Ravi (Dante Amanda) who claims that in a previous life he was Floyd from Jamaica, a ‘bad man’, with links to the criminal that our French cop is trying to track down. He asks to speak to the young man, but his father gets angry and shuts things down.

Of course the Thai team are not impressed with the story of this supposed reincarnation. The only one who sees it as a lead is Joanna (Caroline Ducey), a French woman who is part of the squad.

There is an explosion and fire at the house where the boy lives, with only Ravi surviving – clearly someone must think he knows more than he should. David and Joanna join forces and whisk him away to protect him and try to get to the bottom of whether he does know anything worth pursuing or is just making it up.

A low budget thriller from director Jean-Marc Minéo, his script (co-written with Philippe Vidal) has the kernel of a good idea but handles it in a dull way, and just seems to be an excuse to string the plot along between various explosions of gunfire. Much of it is dialogue driven, with lots of scenes driving around in cars, so it is odd that some sequences are in either French or Thai with no subtitles – though this may just have been a fault of the review screener I viewed.

Steve Kirkham