Unknown review

Although this review contains a lean overview of the plot, I stress enough how completely happy, I walk into the blind unknown trailers, plot descriptions or advertisements. If you are well prepared to take a leap of faith, moving forward and moving on to the third paragraph. For the rest of you jellyfish craven, the film stars Liam Neeson: Dr. Martin Harris, at the head of a Summit of biotechnology in Germany with his wife (Mad Men January Jones). After a communication problem with the cab on the way to their hotel driver, Martin realizes that he left his briefcase to the airport and short to retrieve while his wife settled in their rooms.

By a simple chance of fate, Martin cab ride will considerably South when a highway accident causes the car to dive the road and into a nearby river. He wakes four days later in a hospital alone and quickly checks himself to find his wife certainly worried. But when he returned to the hotel, she says she has never seen before. She admits be the wife of Dr. Martin Harris, but alas Neeson is not him.

It is difficult to get rid psychological mystery. You are constantly Varus suspension of disbelief or just be intentionally obtuse. But here the actors are good and I think that their situation. good acting cannot save a bad film, but it can do wonders for a kind of a good that is.

Performance of the Neeson is disbelief and skeptical - obviously he remember things correctly... is not it? - and the presence of Diane Kruger: the taxi driver fleeing fear of emigration is a credible partner for Neeson. There is something about Kruger student films it is. Is there another actress who can thus manage play youth and the naive and the old and altered at the same time? Maybe that Nicole Kidman.

Unfortunately, unknown is interested in half to play memory games. Liam Neeson: a star of action is a new development in his long career, and follows on the heels of the slippery hit taken (2008), it makes sense for the player to follow the development where it leads. Unknown becomes rapidly less prone to determine why things are taking place is to survive at present. Mystery and action hybrid is similar to what the French films telling anybody (do say them someone, 2006), which also associated with a situation of need to know with fast-paced pursuits and intrigue. But then that unknown is initially considerate of its mystery, it finally compromises its heady origins of guns and car chases.

Not that this is a bad thing to have firearms and prosecutions of the car, I love guns and prosecution of the car. But I prefer they emerge organically, and it was disappointing to see the characters that I invested in are beginning to break this suspension of disbelief. Congratulations to the Spanish Director Jaume Collet-Serra. man is very good at spinning plates. But the script just isn't enough room for his characters in the second half. Unknown treats many of his characters as chess pieces (including an appearance by Frank Langella 11th) and when it comes to untangle wires gives results, but plausible, unsatisfactory. Undemanding final is not to undermine the power of what preceded it (* cough * TheLastExorcism * cough *), but it is enough to dull experience.

Let's choose sides: is film about the destination or the journey? I am often claim to have selective memory. If unknown arose on the back of a small vanity, experience resulting combines good acting, directing and stimulation in a captivating mash that will make you probably enough forgive his conventional conclusion.

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