“Backtrace” (**1/2 out of four) was a reasonably stylish crime melodrama about the lone surviving thief (Matthew Modine) of a violent car robbery gone wrong who is paroled from a high-security facility and given an experimental drug to help him fully restore his memories of his actions and his cohorts but he soon finds that two hard-noses cops (Sylvester Stallone and Christopher McDonald) and his former criminal partners are onto him. Imperfect and uneven, as story takes its time getting going, but once it does it shoots into high-gear as Modine’s strong lead work and film’s explosive pacing end up carrying you away. Stallone and McDonald are both good in minor roles and both make a good team.