If I rated films based solely on storyline, this would be a 1, but the competent acting and filming boost the rating. The high-profile cast made me presume the film would have a great story and would be a thrilling ride--who would doubt it, with Zane and Hopper as the male leads (I pictured the Phantom plus Speed, and throw in Helfer from Battlestar Galactica). At worst I assumed the complex intensity of Memento when I read about "flashbacks" and murder-mystery. However, at the halfway mark I had to double-check the film background to make sure it wasn't a Lifetime Channel movie of the week. There were a lot of chatty scenes where the characters make lame jokes and share pointless stories. The neuroscience references are, at the same time, too implausible and too banal to make this a good sci-fi, while the action scenes are too few, brief and dull to make this a good thriller. I hope this isn't a spoiler (since I didn't check the "spoiler" box for this review), but while you spend the first 20 minutes being drawn into a frame of "Alzheimer's researcher" who is "taking care of Alzheimer's loved one," making you think the story will do something with this strongly developed early thread, that thread suddenly disappears and is never mentioned again. Which is what should happen to this film...
