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Unforgettable (2017), R, ★


Oh, boy, when was the last time I've seen Katherine Heigl on screen? All I can think of is The Big Wedding or unbearable New Year's Eve. You know what? I do not want to waste time getting this review set-up. This movies makes Fatal Attraction look like a masterpiece of epic proportions and it also makes some of those Nicolas Sparks' movies look like good movies.

Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) is barely coping from her divorce with her ex-husband, David (Geoff Stults). David has become happily engaged to Julia (Rosario Dawson) and she steps over as both wife and stepmother to Tessa's and David's daughter, Lily (Isabella Rice). Tessa does not allow the relationship to go on and become happily ever after. Tessa steals Julia's cellphone and sends Facebook messages (that's right, Facebook is part of this "masterpiece") to his ex-boyfriend (Simon Kassianides) and pretends to be Julia telling him she wants him back. Julia does not bring him up to David. And, it becomes a game to Tessa enjoying it and sipping wine, like some sort of caricature of Alex Forrest.


Unforgettable is going to be a memory for me. It is definitely going to be a memento for me come December when I jot it down on my "worst movies of 2017" list. Ok, it also gives social media a worse name because and (I'm not kidding), in addition to Tessa having fun pretending to be Julia on Facebook, she sips wine and masturbates while sending dirty texts. If you take away social media and cellphones, maybe, the movie becomes better, maybe bad at best. It is also poor construction that the movie foreshadows that Julia gave up a career in digital media.

Why was Rosario Dawson in this tripe? She is a great actress and she actually gave a decent performance and that is the sole reason that the movie is awarded one star. Katherine Heigl's performance is over-the-top and the male actors add nothing new. And, you can see where Cheryl Ladd who plays Heigl's mother in the movie is going to be placed into as the movie is over because the conclusion is more funny and frustrating than scary.

This is a movie that Lifetime would normally accept, but had the decency to pass. But, it is a deplorable Lifetime movie that does not use characters well (both male and female), takes the domestic abuse subplot into low territory and seems disorganized as to where the movie starts and how much time has passed. (Think about it when you see it.) Or, actually, don't. Director Barbara Di Novi makes her directing debut and collaborates with writer Christina Hodson to make this movie. I always champion for female directors and writers to make and creates stories and movies. But, this movie is not a plateau for any future female filmmaker. This is soap-opera trash.

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