Unknown (2011)
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger
Whilst in Germany for a work conference with his wife Martin Harris is involved in a car crash and ends up in a coma. When he wakes he has trouble remembering certain aspects of his life. The parts he does remember lead him back to his wife but things aren’t exactly as he remembers them.
Billed as a film that Taken fans would enjoy this Drama/Thriller is nothing like Taken. It reminded me in places of The Bourne Identity (2002), a man not really knowing who he is and it was based in a foreign city making him more lost than normal. The film is very slow with the only real action being a couple of car chases. Liam Neeson is nothing like his Taken character and is a bit of a limp character. I wasn’t too sure how the film would play out and in the end I didn’t really care for any of the characters.
Recommend
Slow, boring and not even the presence of January Jones and Diane Kruger could pick this film up. Don’t bother.
TheFriedGold rating – 2/10 – The tag line of ‘Take your Life back’ couldn’t be more appropriate
Film Fact
According to his passport, Martin Harris was born on June 7th. This is also the birthday of Liam Neeson.
thefriedgold 
This is much disappointing. I have a copy of this and I was looking forward to a bit of Kruger (Jones would get a nod too if she wasn’t so vapid in everything) – I guess I’ll skip it now. BOO
Agreed, Jones is just a nothing actress at the moment and she doesn’t do much here. I think the marketing department tried to bill this as like Taken (the similarity between the two posters is stupid, the tagline having “take” in it SURELY can’t be coincidence) rather than the makers, who I hope were trying for something a bit different. Neeson phones it in, film bored me, I agree, by the end I just didn’t care.