ildsol The build-up is exciting: Someone has stolen the identity and life of the protagonist ... or is he, himself, going insane? Martin Harris (the ever reliable Liam Neeson) explains the struggle in his mind as: "a war between being told who you are and knowing who you are." The premise is followed by great action scenes and twists and turns to keep you guessing most of the way. A movie like this, however, ends well by keeping suspension of disbelief on a tight leash, for the viewer to really invest emotionally. The third act, unfortunately, looses the grip. Where genre classics like The Fugitive (1993) and The Game (1997) held the viewer fast to the heart-pounding end, Unknown Identity ends up increasingly far-fetched, and it eventually couldn't keep me truly caring about the story.6/10

Steve Carras Just early into the New Year, I, one who saw this in its 2011 original release, and am watching it right now, on Amazon Streaming, have finally taken it upon myself to review it six years now.To jdkraus from Mainevillo, Ohio. Just with all due respect, you're a wee bit off with your proffered 2008 release date for "Taken", the earlier, somewhat similar monster blockbuster, but it was one year behind, 2009 the real release date,so no harm done with the wrong date, since 2008 was before 2009.Now onto the review. This film, with Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, and January Jones, taking time off from some TV "Mad Men", take the lead here.Neeson is a spy who goes overseas with wife Jones, goes in a taxi, crashed into a navigable river, and then winds up amnesiac in the hospital. He knows of being Dr.Martin Harris (but it's not sure and I sure as heck ain't gonna spoil this here).. and then spends the first part of the flick running up against an impostor, a January Jones who does not even recognize him, a kid-nap, or adult spy-nap..to coin a phrase, where he again winds up in some hospital, a sinister following by someone through a tunnel,, then meets Diane Kruger (always lovely as ever..) who becomes the best person to happen to him, almost a girlfriend, and offers him (Neeson:)"a place to crash') This friendship is off and on as she b word slaps him at a hip disco, suspecting something, wins up with wife Jones, being more her Mad Men husbands type, and from here I ain't gonna spend any more time here, because it would spoil it.You just gotta watch, or what ever, or hey. Read other reviewers.Everyone, including Fox, has been "Taken" (a-hem!) with LIam Neesonm, and it shows with films (this is from Warners,though,not Fox) Trademark of losing or looking for someone or something is a longtime, and patented Neeson trademark, but commercially and creatively, you have to admit, it works. No big chases a lot with Fox's Taken movies but still a very good thriller.r

Tss5078 Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills and instead of using them to save his family, this time he's using them to save himself. Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) has gone to Berlin, with his wife, for a medical conference, when an accident has left him in a coma. Upon awaking, no one knows who he is, not even his wife, but worse than that, there is another person walking around claiming to be Martin Harris. I don't know about you, but after three Taken movies and a handful of similar film, all starring Liam Neeson, playing the same type of character in the same type of situations, I've gotten pretty tired of him and his particular set of skills. At least the Taken movies moved at a reasonable pace and had more than a narrow focus, the same can't be said for Unknown. Parts of this film are as slow as can be, featuring Neeson and company sitting around talking about what could be going on and what to do before they show them doing it. They story is also so narrowly focused, that it leaves little flexibility for anything else. This film is as serious as it gets, it is a hundred percent focused on the story at all times, and Liam Neeson is as dry as the banks of the Colorado River. The chase scenes were cool, the conspiracy around everything was well written, but all in all this film feels very long and moves way too slowly for an action thriller, not to mention, I think I speak for everyone when I say we've had more than enough of Liam Neeson in these type of films.

Toby Chilvers (ybot-63333) REVIEW CONTAINS minor SPOILERSThe movie is about an American professor called Dr Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) who goes to Germany with his wife for some important conference talk about agriculture and corn. While he is checking into the hotel, he suddenly realises he forgot his brief case and passport at the airport. He quickly rushes out the door and flags down a taxi. While on the way to the airport, the taxi crashes into a river. He is knocked out but the (I think the character's French) female taxi driver called Gina (Diane Kruger) saves him. When Martin Harris wakes up in a German hospital, he finds that another man has taken his identity. Even his wife doesn't recognise him. With the help of Gina and one of her old Nazi contacts, they slowly uncover the truth. To tell you more would be to spoil the movie, but let's just say you rethink what small part of the movie you saw before the car crash, and - minor spoilers incoming - unnecessarily. This bothered me after I saw the movie, I really would have liked to see lies or very specific things that are only noticeable on a second viewing in the first scene. But you don't need to watch the movie twice to realise that there was nothing hidden in the first scene, because the plot simply didn't allow it. For me that was the biggest let-down with this movie. All the trickery took place after you knew there was trickery going on. This made the movie have less replay value than a movie like Inception or especially Memento. For me at least, I went into this movie thinking it was going to be one thing but it delivered only half that, and the other half fell into another category. What I'm saying there is not that Unknown was a half hearted movie, but it was only half in the category of what I expected it would be fully in.Liam Neeson performed about as well as in Non-Stop, which is typical Liam Neeson. The real stand out performance was by Diane Kruger who played Gina. I hadn't really noticed Diane in any other movies but in Unknown she really did a good job.In conclusion, this is basically your typical Liam Neeson movie with really good supporting cast. I personally liked Non-Stop (awesome movie) better but this movie did have it's own charms too.Would recommend if you're a Liam Neeson fan or someone who has watched too many Christopher Nolan movies and wants to be disappointed with the plot.