Unforgettable

Name: Unforgettable
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: April 21, 2017
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Geoff Stults, Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 21, 2017 | R

Starring: Geoff Stults, Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson

Summary: Tessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David (Geoff Stults), becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson)—not only bringing Julia into the home they once shared but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly (Isabella Rice). Trying to settle into her new role as a wifeTessa Connover (Katherine Heigl) is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her ex-husband, David (Geoff Stults), becomes happily engaged to Julia Banks (Rosario Dawson)—not only bringing Julia into the home they once shared but also into the life of their daughter, Lilly (Isabella Rice). Trying to settle into her new role as a wife and a stepmother, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her put her own troubled past behind her. But Tessa’s jealousy soon takes a pathological turn until she will stop at nothing to turn Julia’s dream into her ultimate nightmare. [Warner Bros.]… Expand

Director: Denise Di Novi

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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David Lewis

Apr 20, 2017

Unforgettable may have a generic title, and it may be a train wreck, but it’s a watchable train wreck throughout. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Apr 20, 2017

At the helm for the first-time, and working from screenwriter Christina Hodson’s slick balancing act of aspirational romance and dark psychology, longtime producer Di Novi enlivens the generic mix with a tinge of camp and a sure grasp of mean-girl dynamics. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Apr 27, 2017

It's a uniquely feminine kind of villainy that's transfixed us since classical Hollywood, and Di Novi and Heigl understand it implicitly in order to execute it perfectly. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 20, 2017

If this hits, and it could, we could see a whole new chapter in Heigl’s struggling, diva-damaged big screen career. No more frothy, ill-conceived romances, just scary Joan Crawford/Barbara Stanwyck/Bette Davis/Theresa Russell minxes, black widows and back-stabbers. Why couldn’t she become the movie woman America loves to hate? Read full review

Pat Padua

Apr 20, 2017

Unforgettable borrows elements from film noir, Lifetime movies and slasher flicks and updates them for the Internet age. But this forgettable thriller will simply make you remember other, better films. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Apr 20, 2017

Here, both the director (Denise Di Novi) and the writer (Christina Hodson) are women, yet that doesn’t translate into a reimagining of the tired formula. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Apr 20, 2017

This one’s unforgettable indeed, just not for the right reasons. Read full review

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GreatMartin

Apr 25, 2017

Sometimes I want to go see a trashy movie that doesn’t make sense but makes you forget what is going on in your world. In other words spending 2 hours just having fun at what ludicrous situations you are seeing on the screen and after reading a few things about “Unforgettable” I decided thatSometimes I want to go see a trashy movie that doesn’t make sense but makes you forget what is going on in your world. In other words spending 2 hours just having fun at what ludicrous situations you are seeing on the screen and after reading a few things about “Unforgettable” I decided that was the movie I was going to see. To my surprise it was a lot better than I expected.

I am not, and have never been, a fan of Katherine Heigl and since she plays the very hissable villainess that brought a sort of fun to watching what was in play. She also made rooting for Rosario Dawson very easy.

The set up is slow and plodding because we have seen it dozens of times before but when the two women get into the climatic fight you are completely drawn in. It was if the director Denise Di Novi told the actresses to show the ‘boys’ how a fight should really be done and not to hold back.

With the female director, Di Novi, and a female screenwriter, Christina Hodson, I was sort of surprised, and disappointed, that it really didn’t make a difference, or was smarter, in the approach to both sexes. As always the men are brutal, controlling, while the women are complacent and have backgrounds involving violence.

Tessa (Heigl) is the ex-wife and quickly establishes through her perfect, not a hair out of place, look and actions that she is deranged. She is bringing up her daughter Lily (Isabella Kai Rice) to be the perfect child. It isn’t long before we meet Tessa’s mother Helen (Cheryl Ladd) and see where the pattern of constantly criticizing the child comes from though grandmother is as sweet as can be to Lily.

When we first meet Julia (Dawson) it is the opening of the picture, her face is bloody and she is in a police station being questioned about the murder of her ex-boyfriend (Simon Kassianides) and we go back six months when she has left San Francisco to move to Southern California to live with her fiancé David (Geoff Stults) and get to know his daughter Lily. Almost immediately Tessa gets involved with the new set up claiming her right as the daughter’s mother.

Talking about mothers Cherl Ladd is the mother of all mothers and would be the villain of the piece if Tessa wasn’t so perfect in her craziness and how she sets up Julia from the beginning. Talking about that, computer smarts is becoming more and more involved in movies and though I didn’t quite understand how Tessa manipulated the computer to do what she does it is frightening how unsafe we are in today’s world.

The last 40 minutes of the movie are sit up in your seat and hold your breath time, making this movie a lot of fun though with some very visible violence. Oh, yes, the last minute is a great payoff which I really didn’t see coming though it makes perfect sense.

“Unforgettable” is a trashy movie, really forgettable, but a lot of fun while watching it with good performances by the two female leads.… Expand

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LeZee

Sep 16, 2017

UNfortunately-FORGETTABLE film!

Directional debut for a producer. I think she did well. But the film had a major issue. The film was decent with nice performances and production quality. Though it came at a wrong era. Came in too late, at least two decades late. If you had watched a decentUNfortunately-FORGETTABLE film!

Directional debut for a producer. I think she did well. But the film had a major issue. The film was decent with nice performances and production quality. Though it came at a wrong era. Came in too late, at least two decades late. If you had watched a decent number of films in your life, probably you have already seen plenty of similar film. And most of those would have come from the late last century. As what the title says, it was totally opposite of meaning that unfortunately a forgettable film. All the above, they have kept open ending, hinting a sequel could come. I already feel that is a bad idea!

Since it was very familiar, easy to predict the scenes and dialogues. Particularly the climax was a let down. I expected something better than usual. The clues, twist, all were ordinary. Though the actors were decent. That does not mean it is worth watching for them. Definitely won't work, unless you are a big fan of anyone of them. Something for sure that it looks like they ran out of the ideas. Why would someone want to make the same old film with a new cast. Why not call it a remake or a reboot! Anyway, don't think it is worth a watch, unless you haven't seen many films in your life or born yesterday.

4/10… Expand

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PipeC

Jul 23, 2017

Jealousy has been taken up to another level: Is it a pathology or an exaggerated affection?

The Greeks gather the abstraction of love in four appropriate areas, which contain affection types that empirical beings can hand over: Eros (sexual passion and chief propensity of the currentJealousy has been taken up to another level: Is it a pathology or an exaggerated affection?

The Greeks gather the abstraction of love in four appropriate areas, which contain affection types that empirical beings can hand over: Eros (sexual passion and chief propensity of the current romantic- erotic cinema, which inclines to express true love with abrupt lewd interruptions), Storge (linked to the filial and perpetuity), Philia (concord, friendship and appreciation towards others) and Agápe (the purest, chaste and loyal love). There is no doubt that jealousy and love are intimately linked to the loved one. The "green-eyed monster", in suitable proportions, is quite salutary, however, when it batters the limits can lead to unhealthy and pernicious triggers of an inhuman Golgotha. Jealousy and love keep one of the most complex, analyzed, multidimensional, amorphous and worst relationships in the extension of their variables in modern cinematography: from mother to child, marital, engagements, betrayals, love triangles, futile ones, passing loves, between siblings, co-workers, older adults, individuals of the same sex and even inanimate beings."Unforgettable", from the producer turned into filmmaker Denise Di Novi, is the latest audiovisual work in joining the vade mecum of the vacuous, blinded, implausible andalthough its scriptwriter and director are female- contradictorily misogynist romantic feature films of the 21st century.

Julia (Rosario Dawson), a successful and helpful businesswoman, is recovering from a tortuous affair awash with violence, outrage, and abuse. Now she has met David (Geoff Stults), with whom moved to Malibu in order to heal the scars generated by his former abuser. However, David's ex-wife, Tessa (Katherine Heigl), resides with her young daughter in the same locality, where the contact between these two girls will be unavoidable. Julia will take on the most optimal attitude to deal with the megalomaniac and perfectionist behaviors of the good-looking woman. Nevertheless, when Tessa hears that her beloved man is going to marry with her Latina opponent, madness will take shape of an unregenerate blonde with little moderation and insatiable appetite for revenge.

No one would think that gender-based violence would be one of the components in an audiovisual production head by women, although this is an apparent trifle and serves as a paradigm of evolution, and it's even less plausible that the scriptwriter, the filmmaker and the cast of talented actresses were to collaborate on the story of two women struggling for the affection of a man. Will it contribute to show that females can be declared free from the yoke of male chauvinism? Of course not, and that's where avidity for light and clearly hollow entertainment comes up. In addition to hide us what we intuit in advance that happens behind the exhibited narrative thread, trying to build a suspense and intrigue point with which to follow the story, they assign to each frame, in the beginning, timing and editing interest is at rock bottom, for later, to grant it a music video clip touch that accentuates, staggeringly, the atrophy in exposition.

Di Novi and screenwriter Christina Hodson flaunt their unskilledness in the romantic thriller field with a messy assortment of words and determinations misdirecting the story, even sometimes caressing the absence narrative zone. Long ago I saw no really gratuitous twists and cliffhangers in a real atmosphere, it is assumed that the movie is a dramatic love tale, not a seesaw of stupid vengeance with the antagonist's mother as a sign of redemption.

Dawson is the only one who gets out safely of this libidinous congestion, portraying the woman who can perform as a hero as a villain. Heigl demonstrates a high record in the situations of tension and in circumstances where sanity shines by its absence, leaving, as a result, a female duo that is the only thing standing out. "Unforgettable" simply squanders the limited potential it conserved; I thought it would deliver a much better motion picture, nevertheless, I come across with a residual puddle of ideas and powerful motives. The typical and pitiful Hollywood audiovisual production that benefits from a contemporary soundtrack, a modern photography and an alleged message of fair treatment in order to connect with the most naive/ignorant people who still have faith in witnessing an absolute rupture of the stereotypes of love in cinema.… Expand

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Rebecca31

Apr 26, 2017

90% of this movie is Katherine Heigl staring at various people and/or things while ominous music increases in the background gradually becoming more and more menacing just to let you know oh yes she’s the evil one, just look at the way she’s staring at her computer screen while the scary90% of this movie is Katherine Heigl staring at various people and/or things while ominous music increases in the background gradually becoming more and more menacing just to let you know oh yes she’s the evil one, just look at the way she’s staring at her computer screen while the scary music is being scary. I’m so glad the music came on to let me know she’s evil, otherwise I would have been terribly confused. This movie treats the audience like they’re stupid and as a result you get a lazy, rushed together movie that honestly doesn’t deserve your time. The other 10% of the movie is one dimensional characters with failed attempts at character development doing absolutely everything wrong it eventually becomes laughable. If you’re watching this hoping it will eventually pull itself together into a decent little thriller you’ll be left waiting. Not recommended, it’s bland, uninspired and oh what’s the word I’m looking for, oh yes it’s completely forgettable.… Expand

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MattBrady99

Apr 24, 2017

"You're not on Facebook or Twitter; you basically don't exist."

So..."Unforgettable"

I can easily make a joke about this, but you already did. It's a fact.

Oh and I can't believe the 'Lifetime Channel Cinematic Universe' actually exist now. This is cinema.

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tadeuvieira

May 2, 2017

The worst movie I've seen in a long time... Good idea of script, very badly executed. I never left the cinema wanting to make a review on Metacritic or IMDB, this movie did it. I found it predictable and annoying...

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Boosher

Jun 12, 2022

Unforgettable is a extremely poor example of a thriller… straight up Netflix bottom of the barrel film.

So much as if.. smd moments… just this movie really triggered me… I give this movie a straight up 0.1 out of 10. And don’t even get me started on that cop… Sargent idiot and a half…Unforgettable is a extremely poor example of a thriller… straight up Netflix bottom of the barrel film.

So much as if.. smd moments… just this movie really triggered me…

I give this movie a straight up 0.1 out of 10.

And don’t even get me started on that cop… Sargent idiot and a half… also the script feels like a 5 year old wrote it.. if NPCs could talk this movie is what it’ll look like.

Ps: highlighter makes for a really poor blood choice.… Expand

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