Unforgettable is a 1996 science fiction thriller film directed by John Dahl and starring Ray Liotta and Linda Fiorentino.

The film is about a man named David Krane (Liotta), who is obsessed with finding out who murdered his wife.

Seattle Medical Examiner Dr. David Krane finds a matchbook there that reminds him of one found at the scene of his wife Mary's murder.

Meanwhile, Dr. Martha Briggs has created a serum designed to transfer memories via samples of Cerebral Spinal Fluid (CSF).

At his house, Krane injects himself with the serum, and has a memory flash of the night of the murder, but cannot see the killer's face.

Entering the sketch into a computer program, Krane's colleague Curtis Avery identifies the suspect as Eddie Dutton, who has a criminal history, including drugs and murders for hire.

As Krane relives these memories, Bresler arrives and decides to kill him and Briggs by lighting a fire.

As Dr. Martha Briggs had just told the visiting detective, it was not Krane's physical condition but rather his "mental state" that was the real cause of his coma.

Thus, those last moments in Krane's mind indicate that he has finally let go of Mary and is now ready to return to his kids in real life.

Since you spend a fair amount of time in the morgue in Unforgettable, do you have any crazy coroner's tales to relate?

[5] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F.[6] Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, said, "Though it's well made, Unforgettable is also gimmicky, with too much of the plot revolving around voyeuristic tricks.

Tapping into the same kind of virtual reality gambit seen in Strange Days, Unforgettable deals with one person's ability to borrow the experiences of others ... Insanely far-fetched as this is, it's hardly dull.

Mr. Dahl's visual imagination is in fine form, even if his storytelling shows no great eagerness to escape from the B-movie sphere.

This is one of the most convoluted, preposterous movies I've seen—a thriller crossed with lots of Mad Scientist stuff, plus wild chases, a shoot-out in a church, a woman taped to a chair in a burning room, an exploding university building, adultery, a massacre in a drugstore, gruesome autopsy scenes and even a moment when a character's life flashes before her eyes, which was more or less what was happening to me by the end of the film.

The Miami Herald granted the film two out of four stars: "But there's little joy in watching the puzzle come together, since the script, by newcomer Bill Geddie, cheats.

It's impossible for the viewer to solve the case alongside Krane: The movie withholds crucial information until a revelation-packed denouement.

At its best, Unforgettable recalls prime Hitchcock in the way it unearths great suspense in familiar situations, such as a long footchase and a supermarket robbery.

"[9] Reviewer Bryant Frazer gave the film a C− and wrote, "Liotta and Fiorentino look kind of sleepy throughout the whole proceeding ... but still, it has its moments, including the very ending, that really work—as if somewhere, buried inside this mess, there's a good movie trying to get out.

"[10] Chris Kridler of The Baltimore Sun did like the film, calling it "a pretty twisted story, contrived but entertaining".

[11] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described director Dahl as "a master of inciting fear and dread" and the film as "a striking piece of filmmaking ... For a good 45 minutes of its two-hour running time, Unforgettable has the viewer in a state of oppressive tension.