Trailerblazing -- Unforgettable

Unforgettable -- April 21, 2017 -- directed by Denise Di Novi -- starring Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, Whitney Cummings, Cheryl Ladd, Geoff Stults

Right off the bat, I will say that I am not buying anything that this film is trying to sell. I am not buying Heigl as a scorned wife. I am not buying Dawson as a harassed new spouse. Stults is barely visible, and where is Cummings? This whole thing looks ridiculous and scrambled together, and I cannot believe that such a cheap Fatal Attraction switcheroo knock-off was even approved. Oh, but wait... there is that godawful 2009 flick Obsessed, so Unforgettable is not only unnecessary, but also too late. How many story clones can Hollywood crank out? I am hoping for something unpredictable in this thriller, some kind of twist -- any kind of twist -- that will distinguish it from other ones in the same vein. I am hoping that Heigl surprises me as a villain and hoping that Dawson's role is not that of a one-dimensional wife. Fatal Attraction worked because it examined affairs from a new perspective and because of the sexy-to-hostile chemistry between Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, two actors whose very names elicit respect. Any subsequent thriller about marriage will suffer in comparison. For now, it seems to me that the only way to watch Unforgettable is as a guilty pleasure -- way too guilty for my taste.