This movie reminds me of a 1970's Columbo TV movie. It was on cable one late night and I "taped" it to watch later. The beginning premise is intriguing about a man who has selective amnesia after a terrible car accident. But you start getting suspicious right away because his wife didn't even strain her ankle in this accident in which their car crashed thru a rock wall and plummeted down a very steep hill, bouncing and crashing over and over again. There's some suspicion added about his wife committing adultery, and maybe even himself. Then's there's Bob Hoskins as a quirky pet shop owner and private eye who Merrick had apparently hired just before the car accident, though he can't remember that. But stupidity starts to rear it's ugly head as one scenes has Merrick (Tom Berrenger) and his wife visit the crash site/demolished car they were driving.....the car was still crashed upside down on a hill by their SF home. Apparently the police don't get involved in near fatal car accidents in San Francisco.They just leave the car where it came to rest. Yeh sure. Spoiler alert: Now the ending sequence of events of this movie would have you believe that Merrick wasn't really in the car, because Mr. Merrick had already been shot to death by his wife, but that it was Merrick's wife's lover; Jack Stanton in the car; and that the surgeons unknowingly reconstructed Stanton's face so that he looked exactly like Merrick's face. Yeh sure; that's believable. Guess the two of them had identical blood types, dental records, height, body shapes, color of eyes, speech, color and type of hair, not to mention things like DNA. Yeh, this would have been a movie for Detective Columbo, but nothing more.
