Calling a movie Unforgettable is only begging for critics to make bad puns. But it's true: Unforgettable utterly fails to make an impression.
A by-the-book suspense thriller with touches off medical paranoia, Unforgettable is a subdued little production with toned-down performances from the two leads - Goodfellas' Ray Liotta and Jade's Linda Fiorentino, both playing against type.
Unforgettable is a hotch-potch of other genre movies - it is most reminiscent of The Fugitive in that Liotta plays medical examiner Dr David Krane, a forensic pathologist obsessed by the unresolved murder of his wife for which he has been the prime suspect.
Acquitted on a technicality, he refuses to accept that the only person who can clear him - his wife - is dead. So when he meets neurobiologist Dr Martha Biggs (Fiorentino), who has been experimenting with memory transfer on lab rats, Krane decides to become a medical guinea pig and injects himself with his own wife's memories.
But it doesn't stop there. Despite the potentially lethal consequences of his actions - the risk of heart attack, never mind the psychiatric problems - Krane embarks upon a madcap trawl around memory-land; injecting himself again and again until the veil surrounding his wife's death begins to lift.
By this stage, the viewer is left with three clear suspects and it's a matter of roulette as to whodunnit. Scriptwriter Bill Geddie leaves his options wide open until the last minute, which tends to be the problem with this genre of suspense thriller: credibility.
While Unforgettable is passable, it suffers through two very drab lead performances. Liotta is the more effective as the buttoned-down medical examiner; Fiorentino, playing it 'straight' after The Last Seduction and Jade, is surprisingly dull.
