AppsScraps Movie Reviews

Aug 13, 2012

Unknown

Release date: 16 February 2011 (Westwood, California)

When Dr. Martin Harris, a bio-technogolist from America (Liam Neeson) awakens from a coma after a traffic accident in Berlin, he discovers someone (Aiden Quinn) has taken on his identity. Not even his wife (January Jones) fesses up to knowing him. With the help of a cab driver named Gina (Diane Kruger) he begins to unravel the plot only to discover to his horror - and to the movie's credit - he is actually a bad guy in Berlin to blow up an Arab bigwig (Mido Hamada) and a too-smart-for-his-own good professor who is about to save the world (Sebastien Koch). While entertaining, the unknowns in Unknown simply take too long to uncoil despite Jaume Collet-Serra's 'let's-get-this-movie-ended' directing style. While made watchable for the first 40-odd minutes of mystery and the appearance of of Frank Langella (as Harris' US boss) midway through - Unknown ultimately uses too much umpf in getting to its point. 

My rating 5 out of 10.

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