I have never seen a film were every one looks so bored, the writing and score are really bad, the dialogue pitiful and the music overbearing. There are so many plot holes you could drive a horse and carriage through them, so the story, after a bank robbery one of them is left with no memory, seven years go by, strangely no one ages. The penal system is so lax they allow his son to be incarcerated and his daughter in law a job as a nurse, obviously wearing spectacles and your hair in a pony tail throws them off the trail. When getting out the prison beeping your horn means they will not search a car. Syl Stone sleep walks through the film putting drawing pins in a cork board, why after 7 years do they still have this in the middle of the office. Oddly as it is his father he has no hesitation in injecting him with a 20% chance of killing him. The film limps to a boring end and Sly tops up his pension, awful film.

BACKTRACE is one of those low budget and generic thrillers with a mixed-up plotline and lots of drama and incident but little in the way of sense or style or, indeed, originality. It's also a film which bags a big-name screen presence and makes the most out of them appearing for about fifteen minutes; it's usually Bruce Willis in this kind of dreck but here we get Sylvester Stallone playing the usual weary cop. The story is of violent robbery and a criminal finding himself kidnapped by other criminals, and old-timer Matthew Modine should really know better.

Twenty years after a botched robbery, three grifters kidnap an amnesia patient to jog his memory and find the long-lost money. It's directed by Brian A. Miller, who has also been behind several direct to video Bruce Willis vehicles like Vice, The Prince and Reprisal.

After suffering a brain injury from that aforementioned heist, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) has spent seven years suffering from amnesia in a prison psychiatric ward. Then, a fellow inmate and the prison doctor (Ryan Guzman, Rio from the abortive Jem and the Holograms movie and Meadow Williams, Apollo 13) break him out and inject him with a drug that gives him back his old mind. Now, in order to get back the money, MacDonald must escape Detective Sykes (Sylvester Stallone in a glorified cameo),FBI agent Franks (Christopher McDonald, who I always refer to as Shooter McGavin) and the side effects of the drug.

If you're heading into this expecting a Stallone cop thriller, perhaps you should just watch Cobra or Nighthawks.