In the buildup to last year’s Reminiscence coming to theaters and HBO Max, one recurring criticism of the marketing campaign was that it made the movie look a little too similar to the work of Christopher Nolan, given that the hybrid of sci-fi thriller and murder mystery came shrouded in mystery, albeit with the promise of ambitious narrative scope and a sky-high concept.
When you think about it, the comparisons were inevitable when writer and director Lisa Joy has been the Dark Knight trilogy architect’s sister-in-law for over a decade after marrying his brother Jonathan, while the spouses partnered up to co-create and oversee the thematic and spiritual predecessor Westword.
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Unfortunately, Reminiscence wasn’t even in the same stratosphere as Nolan’s cinematic output, and went down in the history books as an all-timer of a box office bomb. While a hybrid release and the pandemic obviously didn’t help matters, it’s still a fact of record that no film to ever open on 3000 screens or more has ever scored a worse opening weekend than the Hugh Jackman vehicle’s $2 million.
That being said, the calamitous financial failure has been putting in a strong showing on streaming this week, by conquering the charts on two rival platforms. As per FlixPatrol, Reminiscence is the second most-watched title on Netflix in Australia, while simultaneously ranking on the HBO Max global most-watched list.
It isn’t a turn of events we saw coming, but it’s far too late for Reminiscence to even consider the prospect of being deemed a success on any level.
Published: May 19, 2022 02:59 am