Unknown (2011)

	Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra	COUNTRY Germany/USA GENRE Crime/Drama/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Ukjent ID RUNNING TIME 113 minutes
	Produced by: Joel Silver Leonard Goldberg Andrew Rona
	Written by: Oliver Butcher Stephen Cornwell

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dr. Martin Harris	Liam Neeson	½
Gina	Diane Kruger	½
Liz Harris	January Jones
Martin B.	Aidan Quinn
Professor Rodney Cole	Frank Langella	½
Ernst Jürgen	Bruno Ganz
Professor Bressler	Sebastian Koch	½

Review

Memento meets The Fugitive as Liam Neeson finds himself in all sorts of trouble after arriving in Berlin with his wife to attend a conference. First, his taxi crashes, leaving him with a conventional plot-convenient amnesia, and then his wife disowns him when he tries to prove that he is who he claims to be. For the next hour and a half, we must roam the streets of Berlin with him trying to solve the puzzle. Although there is undeniable familiarity in the setup, not to mention the paranoid atmosphere director Jaume Collet-Serra tries to conjure, the script is quite ingenious within its premise, and it holds up well even if the filmmakers try their best to distract us through numerous uninspired and dragged-out action sequences and car chases that curb rather than intensify the useful level of suspense the film har built up. As such, Collet-Serra's work here is more mechanical and less elegant than in his previous film, the chiller Orphan (2009), but thanks to a committed lead performance by Neeson and industrious storytelling, Unknown still makes for an entertaining watch with a couple of interesting segments, notably one between the two veterans Frank Langella and Bruno Ganz.