Thursday 25 October 2012

Unknown (2011)

Director: Jaume Collet-Sella
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Bruno Ganz, Aiden Quinn
Certificate: 15
Genre: Action, Thriller
Awards: None

Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) is in Berlin with his wife (Jones) for  a conference when he has a road accident. He wakes up in hospital after being in a coma for four days. When he goes back to his wife, she doesn't recognise him and there is another Dr Martin Harris. Now extremely confused, Dr Harris has to find out what's going on.

Unknown is intriguing and has some good ideas. it has also gone to lengths in order to not just be a mediocre version of Taken. Neeson's character is not an unstoppable badass and in the action scenes he is a lot less capable than Brian Mills.

Unknown is not Neeson's best film by far, but it has it's good bits. It's a nice little thriller with a good story.

****Good

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