Intriguing premise; a reporter escapes an attempt on her life, but suffers temporary amnesia and doesn't know why she's a target but, not well done. If this film was made today the basic McGuffin, concern about global warming, would carry more weight, as would the conspiracy to remove one of the guys with a solution. The reporter's loss of memory and the behaviour of the hit men would also be more convincingly portrayed.
As it is we get a cheap, slow and rather unrealistic story in which a drop-out professor invents a solar-cell paint. A big, anonymous oil company feeling threatened sends two hoods to silence him, but not before tabloid tv reporter Eve has interviewed the academic, putting herself and the cameraman in line for silencing. Their car is run off the road and Eve wakes up with no memory of what has happened. This is where it starts to get unbelievable. She appears to retain most of her cognitive functions and awareness, finding her way to a lecture being given by fake motivational speaker Harry Griggs whom she had ridiculed in a report. Unfortunately the hit men turn up at the same location and start blasting away at Eve and Harry on the car park. Although a lobby full of people fail to notice anything! So they head off to the police right? No, the film's only 20 minutes in! Instead they go to a bar where she calmly and rationally explains to Harry about her memory loss. He finally tells her who she is and where she works. So then they go to the TV studio to talk to staff and find out what her assignment was - yes? Wrong again. They wait until the studio is closed and sneak in to check her PC. They then go to her house where the gunmen again turn up and start shooting up the quiet neighbourhood which is obviously populated entirely by deaf people! They escape again and Eve gradually starts remembering bits and pieces. Oh, and it turns out that the camerman survived the crash and has been explaining everything to the police. When will you learn? He has of course been holed up in a motel scared stiff. Finally they all make contact on yet another car park just as the assassins arrive. Only this time the police also materialize although it is not clear who exactly summoned them! Like I say, it has all the elements of a very good chase movie. It's just too hard to swallow
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