Plot: Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) is in a taxi accident and when he leaves the hospital, another man has assumed his identity, and his wife (January Jones) has forgotten him. He finds the taxi driver Gina (Diane Kruger) to help retrace his steps, and soon killers are after both of them.
Review: Unknown starts like a high concept movie with a man whose identity was assumed by someone else, and no one can tell. Just when I decided that maybe this was a Bertolt Brecht story with surrealist idea of identity, the films reveals its true identity as a mindless action movie, and omniscient thugs arrive to start killing people.
There are chase scenes and explosions. Lots of Liam Neeson being outraged.
The plot twists into a pretzel, and the movie ends in a stupid and unsatisfying way. If the ending had been better I might have liked this movie.
Most of the movie fun enough to watch until the end at least. I was not very fond of Liam Neeson, but I liked January Jones.
Cast: Liam Neeson, Duane Kruger, January Jones
Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra
Rating: 2.0 stars, edging closer to 1.5
More: The German in the movie was pretty easy, and the accent was easy to understand.
