Film Review: Memory (2022)

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Memory

Black Bear Pictures, Welle Entertainment, Saville Productions

Elevation Pictures, Briarcliff Entertainment, Open Road Films, STXfilms

Release date

April 29, 2022

#whatonwhatsgood Express Review (by: Jovin Tardif)

Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson) is an assassin who has symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.  He takes medication for his condition. Alex should probably retire but a hitman always has work to do. His boss gives him a new assignment that involves two individuals.  

Alex kills the first man but when he learns he also has to execute a 13-year-old year girl named Beatriz (Mia Sanchez), he isn't interested.  He won't kill children.  

He decides to go after the people who hired him to murder a child in the first place.

He decides to help the F.B.I. which includes F.B.I. Agent Vincent Serra (Guy Pearce) to take down a child sex ring that is run by a powerful businesswoman named Davana Sealman (Monica Bellucci).

If you are looking for a Liam-Neeson-kills-bad-people action flick, you will probably enjoy this film.

Memory is a remake of the 2003 Belgian film 'The Memory of a Killer'.

Directed by

Martin Campbell

Screenplay by

Dario Scardapane

Based on

De Zaak Alzheimer by Jef Geeraerts 

De Zaak Alzheimer by Carl Joos, Erik Van Looy

Produced by

Cathy Schulman, Moshe Diamant, Rupert Maconick, Michael Heimler and Arthur Sarkissian

Starring

Liam Neeson as Alex Lewis

Guy Pearce as Vincent

Monica Bellucci as Davana Sealman

Harold Torres as Hugo Marquez

Taj Atwal as Linda Amistead

Ray Fearon

Ray Stevenson as Detective Danny Mora

Louis Mandylor as Drunk broker

Stella Stocker as Maya

Natalie Anderson as Maryanne Borden

Atanas Srebrev as Dr. Joseph Myers

Cinematography

David Tattersall

Edited by

Jo Francis

Music by

Rupert Parkes

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