Of course I won't use any spoilers by giving away the ending of this movie. All you need to know about judging this flick happens at the very beginning. (An aside: can imdb.com ban commentators if they give away the BEGINNING of "Memento"?)
A car crashes through a railing and starts falling down a cliff face. A real tall cliff face. Cut inside the tumbling car. A man grunts and groans after each carom like he was Homer Simpson. Another cut: a woman is also falling down the cliff, presumably having been thrown from the car, grunting and groaning!
Next scene is the hospital. The man, husband Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger), looks like ground chuck, and suffers from the rare and convenient Deus ex Machina amnesia. The woman, wife Judith Merrick (Greta Scacchi), barely mussed a hair on her pretty little head.
My friends, the way the crash was presented there was no way anyone was going to survive it or even come out in three pieces. Yet their surviving conditions are the legs on which the rest of the plot twists, turns and circumambulates. I lost it right there. This soap is infested with cliches. I got a good unintentional chuckle from the hotel scene where Dan bribes the manager. It's the kind of scene "Police Squad!" spoofed many times.
Berenger twitches his way in the role of the husband. While Scacchi performs some major heaving of breasts.
Pass.
A car crashes through a railing and starts falling down a cliff face. A real tall cliff face. Cut inside the tumbling car. A man grunts and groans after each carom like he was Homer Simpson. Another cut: a woman is also falling down the cliff, presumably having been thrown from the car, grunting and groaning!
Next scene is the hospital. The man, husband Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger), looks like ground chuck, and suffers from the rare and convenient Deus ex Machina amnesia. The woman, wife Judith Merrick (Greta Scacchi), barely mussed a hair on her pretty little head.
My friends, the way the crash was presented there was no way anyone was going to survive it or even come out in three pieces. Yet their surviving conditions are the legs on which the rest of the plot twists, turns and circumambulates. I lost it right there. This soap is infested with cliches. I got a good unintentional chuckle from the hotel scene where Dan bribes the manager. It's the kind of scene "Police Squad!" spoofed many times.
Berenger twitches his way in the role of the husband. While Scacchi performs some major heaving of breasts.
Pass.