‘Memory of a Killer’ Review: Patrick Dempsey Leads a Fox Hitman Drama That Gets Too Silly Too Quickly

For the first three minutes of Fox’s Memory of a Killer, Patrick Dempsey’s Angelo projects suburban normalcy. He visits his pregnant daughter (Odeya Rush’s Maria) and son-in-law (Daniel David Stewart’s Jeff), makes small talk about his dead wife and his job selling office supplies. He drives Maria to her job teaching school.

At this point, Suburban Normcore Dad Angelo drives off in an SUV so boring it’s practically a station wagon and arrives at a lair in the wilderness, his very own bat cave where he changes out of his bland khakis and puffy vest into a sleek, perfectly tailored black suit. The boring car is left behind and replaced by a snazzy black Porsche Ev.

Because Angelo isn’t a boring suburban office supply salesman.

He’s a hitman, and if you can’t look and drive like a Freaking Hitman, what’s even…