"Her Dark Past" is an engaging mystery yarn about woman who miraculously recovers from a gunshot wound to the head, only to have amnesia about her past life. She apparently remembers nothing about her caring husband and any details about her family and personal relationships. On the surface, Alice seems like a victim. But is she concealing from others the degree of her memory loss?

The characters as a whole are a motley crew with the oily smile of the husband Peter, the shady character of Darren who does not seem to have a job, and the curious details we learn about Alice's serial marriages with a substantial collection of wedding rings. The key to unraveling the mystery is to determine who shot Alice, and that is the subject that completely stumps the cops.

The well-meaning police detectives, as depicted in the film, are completely incompetent. Detective Martin, who is the lead on the case, puts a tail on Alice and discovers that she is secretly meeting with Darren. Yet the detective fails to confront Alice with the strange meetings and elects not to seek an interview with Darren until the home stretch of the film.

Of course, there would be no film if the police were actually doing their job. The lapses of LAPD lead to a convoluted resolution where we learn about the diabolical scam run by one of the characters. The relationship of Darren and Alice was never fully fleshed out by the detectives, and it was never made entirely clear by the filmmakers either. The final scene was especially gimmicky, and it is difficult to believe that in our high tech world, anyone could evade the long arm of the law simply by donning a wig and developing a phony identification card. In straining credibility, the film loses points in its final five minutes.

Believe me, I liked her better as sweet Alice, waking up from a coma of 3 months brought on by a gunshot wound to the head. When she awakes, she doesn't recognize her husband, or know her name.

This opening is about the only thing good regarding this 2016 film. There is entirely too much going on. At first, you believe that the kind,loving husband who was at her side when she awoke was the one who did this. Why? It comes out that his first wife died of multiple stab wounds.

The remaining story is perplexing, confusing and downright disappointing as we find out who Alice really was prior to the shooting and how she ended up a victim.

I am a Lifetime movie fanatic! So, trust me when I say, this was an alright watch. It wasn't corny at all! I love how it had a little edge to it. And JR Bourne is just really amazing to look at. Wow. I love the idea of her having a dark past and I think it should've even been edgier than it was.

It definitely didn't give us enough glimpse into her past. It would have been cool to see a little more of what she was up to back then.

Another negative is that it gets waaay too complicated and I lost track of what was going on a few times. Even the ending confused me. The movie probably should've been longer as the last 20 minutes definitely seemed rushed.