Unknown (2011) Movie Review

Storyline

A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on. Is the answer in the briefcase?

Reviews

Good thriller, but don't go in expecting more than Taken.

Movie was great, but I think a few things fell a little short.

Like another reviewer, dialog did not match up with what was going on at some parts. Not that it made or break the movie. Especially one part where he says, "I remember how to kill you". Which is said on the trailer of the movie, then he says a-hole after it and it becomes sometimes notttttt so cool to say and kinda made me want to laugh.

Action was great for when it happened, which was NOT the whole movie as somebody else said in their review. It starts kind of slow, but builds up towards middle/ending. Expected a little more from the ending because previous action scenes were better, but it was still good.

Probably one of the few things I did not like about this movie was the camera work. During fast paced scenes and some action scenes it was kinda all over and was hard to follow the characters. The action that I did catch was great though.

It has more of a story and big twist than Taken. Though there is going to be a Taken 2, I would suggest just comparing this to Bournes a little more with a fighting style of Taken. Good movie and worth the money. 8/10 because I only see myself watching it a few times on DVD (same with Taken and Bourne).

Director: 

Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers: 

Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell(screenplay)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Liam Neeson	...	Dr. Martin Harris
	Diane Kruger	...	Gina
	January Jones	...	Elizabeth Harris
	Aidan Quinn	...	Martin B
	Bruno Ganz	...	Ernst Jürgen
	Frank Langella	...	Rodney Cole
	Sebastian Koch	...	Professor Leo Bressler
	Olivier Schneider	...	Smith
	Stipe Erceg	...	Jones
	Rainer Bock	...	Herr Strauss
	Mido Hamada	...	Prince Shada
	Clint Dyer	...	Biko
	Karl Markovics	...	Dr. Farge
	Eva Löbau	...	Nurse Gretchen Erfurt
	Helen Wiebensohn	...	Laurel Bressler