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A woman sets out to make life hell for her ex-husband’s new fiancée.
“Unforgettable” stars two strong female actors, Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson, in roles that could have been empowering to women everywhere. Instead, we get a retread of other “crazy ex” thrillers that were never really that good to begin with. Naturally, one is inclined to think of the mother of all crazy ex movies, “Fatal Attraction,” but “Unforgettable” feels more like a carbon copy of “Mother’s Boys,” which starred Jamie Lee Curtis, or the more recent “The Boy Next Door,” with Jennifer Lopez, inferior thrillers to say the least. While Ms. Dawson at least seems like she is putting forth the energy to be somewhat believable, Ms. Heigl suffers terribly as the scorned ex, who just stares menacingly throughout the entire film and does little else. A pity because with the caliber of both actresses on board, this could have been entertaining. Sadly, it’s not even that.
After Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) and her ex-husband David (Geoff Stults), try to move on with their lives after a messy divorce, things are not much easier for Tessa when she learns that David has moved on to another serious relationship with Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson). The two women meet when Tessa drops off her daughter Lily (Isabella Kai Rice) to spend time with David and while the encounter is somewhat awkward, it gets much worse every time the two women see each other. Feeling very perplexed, Julia tries to talk with Tessa, stating that she knows how difficult it must be for her to see both her and her husband together but Tessa is having none of it and instead, sets out to make life for Julia a living hell. Throw into the mix, a back story about an abusive ex-boyfriend and the stage is set for a moderately unsurprising finale, where both women come face to face, once and for all.
“Unforgettable” does nothing to set itself apart from so many other lackluster films of its ilk, instead, director Denise Di Novi phones it in, borrowing heavily from other more successful movies, and puts her actors through generic steps. The film is bland and filled with forgettable characters and the poor attempt made at story exposition and character development, is laughably preposterous. While Katherine Heigl’s career took a beating after dissing “Grey’s Anatomy,” the show that started her career, and then badmouthing “Knocked Up,” the movie that began her big screen profession, she has been fighting hard to prove to the world, that she still has what it takes. For a while, she seemed to be on the up and up but unfortunately, “Unforgettable” has put her back down to the bottom of the ladder. Here’s hoping her next big-screen outing will do the job!
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