“I am interested
in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most
constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away
his identity?” - William Saroyan
We love a good
action/thriller movie and at the weekend we watched a good one. It was the
2011, Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Unknown”
starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones. The screenplay by Oliver
Butcher and Stephen Cornwell was based on the novel “Out of My Head” by Didier
Van Cauwelaert. The production was slick the direction crisp and slick, and the
acting excellent with Liam Neeson doing an excellent job an action hero, or
should that be antihero?
The plot
involves a research biotechnologist (Neeson) who arrives in Berlin accompanied
by his wife (Jones) for a conference at which a scientist and his Arab Prince
backer will announce breakthrough research that will change the agribusiness
landscape around the world. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a taxi
to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the kerb. On the way to the
airport, an accident involving the taxi he is in and he is saved by the
attractive taxi driver (Kruger). He is in a coma though, from which he awakes
four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to
his hotel where his wife refuses to recognise him and another man has claimed
his identity. With help from a nurse, the taxi driver, a retired Stasi agent,
and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what’s going on.
The film was
engaging and involving, with a few twists and turns in the plot, peppered with
some great actions sequences. It reminded me a little bit of the good old
Hitchcock movies and was most enjoyable. We recommend this to people who like a
good action thriller.
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