UNKNOWN 2011

"Unknown" is based on the 2003 French novel published in English as "Out of My Head" by Didier van Cauwelaert. The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn and Frank Langella, released on "Feb 18th,2011".


PLOT:

Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) and his wife, Liz (January Jones), arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology conference where Martin have to give a paper presentation. When they arrive  to site of conference at hotel Martin Harris realize that he forgot his briefcase at the airports which contains their passports. So Martin harris takes a cab to retrieve his briefcase while going to airport a truck crashes into  the road and cab veeers into the river. The cab driver Gina (Diane Kruger) rescues him from but she disappears in the crowd someway. Martin is taken to hospital and he is in coma for 4 days.

After 4 days Martin saw a T.V reporter news about biotechnology conference, then he remember his memory that he should be there for the conference. Martin check out of hospital and go to the hotel there he see his wife Liz at the reception and goes to embrace her. But she claims not to know him and introduces everyone to her husband, who claims to be Martin Harris (Aidan Quinn). Martin wanders the streets of Berlin. He tracks down Gina but refuses to help him because she is an illegal immigrant working in several jobs. Martin goes to meet Professor Bressler (Sebastian Koch), a German bioscientist with whom he had had phone calls about their plans to revolutionize food production. But when he arrives, another Martin (Aidan Quinn) is already there but Martin (Liam Neeson) try to say that he is the real one but police escorted him out. At these consequences some people will be trying to kill Martin(Liam Neeson).

The whole film will very interesting and runs on these following issues:
Who are those people trying to Martin?
Why there are trying to kill him?
Who is another Martin (Aidan Quinn)?
How Martin(Liam Neeson) will prove himself that he is the real one?





CAST PERFORMANCE:

In key role actor Liam Neeson had been made to do a challenging kind of a character portrayal with this one and he sure had gone on to make the wide screen come alive and lively manner in many ways. In addition to him rest of the cast also had gone their respective characters in a wonderful and effective way to delight of viewers and among them had been star actresses Diane Kruger and January Jones. With those performance included a marvelous cinematic experience this had been.

REVIEW:  

"Unknown" is the film for the viewers who are expecting a nice ride with a couple of twists. But if you expect more then there will be no such luck. The film contains some shades of "Taken" and " The Bourne Identity". There are some characters dragging and forgettable except Liam Neeson. Overall the film is a good thriller which has a quite action and couple of  twists in the climax where no one expect.