Directed by:
Jaume Collet-SerraCinematography:
Flavio Martínez LabianoCast:
Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, Frank Langella, Sebastian Koch, Stipe Erceg, Rainer Bock, Mido Hamada, Karl Markovics (more)VOD (2)
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Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife (January Jones) suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally (Diane Kruger), Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth. (StudioCanal UK)
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Many reviews here mention something about a (dumb) punchline suffering from lapses in logic. Quite on the contrary, I think that the story logically (whether or not clever, is a different matter) links and smooths out apparent over-complexity and lapses in logic with something that makes sense, but you must bear in mind that this is a genre movie not pretending to be anything more, so it would be naive to expect anything sophisticated à la Hitchcock. And it works fine, the same as the story in the last thirty minutes. When you add to this the uncompromising Neeson, the snowy atmosphere of Berlin and the great car chases, then... You simply have a quality genre movie.
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Amnesia, Berlin in winter, secret agents, car chases, a cold femme fatale, an Arab sheikh, a trustworthy and likeable woman taxi driver, a brilliant scientist, powerful people pulling the strings behind the scenes, hit men, an unexpected twist. And also a great cast. It’s all here, but only in a recycled and somewhat overdone form. In his previous Orphan, Jaume Collet-Serra managed to shake up some genre clichés, but that doesn’t happen here. The film’s only memorable scene is the chilling encounter between the excellent actors Bruno Ganz and Frank Langella.
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The perfect film after coming back from Berlin. While the real Berlin is a city that takes one's breath away, in this film the area around the Brandenburg Gate serves primarily as the axis of the story. The fact that it's all built on Liam Neeson's acting confidence also doesn't hurt, of course. I'll also never despise Sebastian Koch.
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Liam “hard-guy" Neeson is hitting people again. Although this isn’t as effective as Taken, it is still very, very entertaining. The main problem of Unknown is the fairly strange screenplay that wanted to surprise so much that toward the end I was gritting my teeth at just how artificial it was. But I liked it. Both Diane Kruger and January Jones are nice to look at, Neeson is right at home in this type of role and Bruno Ganz got to me the moment he opened the door. Otherwise, nice car chases, easy-to-follow action and the story... erm, unusual. A decent genre movie.
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An accomplished thriller that seems to have arrived in 2011 from the seventies, when masterpieces like The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and The Quiller Memorandum were being made. Everything seen (the strangely atmospheric, gloomy Berlin, the progressively gritty Neeson, the sympathetic Kruger, the charismatic Ganz, one of the best car chases in recent times) and heard (the good Ottman) was great. The final twist wasn't that much of a twist, but I can't complain. It's a shame that Unknown was unable to avoid a few horrible clichés in the finale. I still give it four stars. I had fun and I was tense.__P.S. I don't know what was supposed to be mysterious about the film.
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