I have been, and I am sure I speak for most of us out here, waiting for a movie that packs in a punch from the start to finish. We have been starved of anything remotely close to the action adventures that we are used to. The last good action movie I remember seeing also starred someone that I have never associated as an action star but has proven most of us wrong with some scintillating performances in the recent past. Last year, he starred as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith the leader of the rebel pack called as the A Team. And he has also taken up aggressive roles such as that of a desperate father Bryan Mills who is in search of his daughter in Taken. The nearly sixty year old, six and a half feet tall Liam Neeson, puts up yet another action packed performance in the role of Dr. Martin Harris in Unknown.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris (January Jones) and Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) are from New Hampshire USA. They have just landed into Berlin for a Bio Technology Conference. Martin has been in conversation with Dr. Bressler (Sebastian Koch) for over 6 months now. Dr. Bressler has been in discussions with the Prince Shada (Mido Hamada) who is willing to put in truck loads of money towards ending the food problem in the world. The two scientists have been extremely involved in the entire process and as joke about how their wives must be crazy to stay married to them. Dr. Bressler has twin daughters – Lily and Laurel.
The married couple travel from the airport to the hotel where the summit is going to be held but Dr. Harris forgets his briefcase which is carrying all his identification. It gets left back on the strolley @ the airport. Once he realizes this, he leaves the hotel without checking in. But en route to the airport the car just about manages to avoid crashing into a refrigerator but is unable to avoid flying off the bridge and into the river below. The driver, Gina (Diane Kruger) manages to drag Martin out of the water but funnily doesn’t stay back for the police to come in. She quietly slips away before the cops come in. Four days later, Martin wakes up in a hospital and has no idea how he got there. His last memory is that of getting out of the airport. It would seem that he was in a coma for the past four days and the bump onto his head has led to a temporary loss of memory. He does struggle out of bed after a couple of hours and gets back to the hotel only to be told that there is already a Dr. Martin Harris at the hotel. His wife, Elizabeth also refuses to acknowledge him as her husband and instead calls for the new Dr. Harris (Aidan Quinn).
Liam Neeson continues to put up a performance which has a lot of intensity in Unknown. A couple of dialogues stand out. One of them which says, “You know what its like to be insane doctor? Its like being in a war between being told who you are and knowing who you are”. And Neeson delivers this with absolute cold intensity. Great to see Aidan Quinn back in movies. The last I remember him from would be The Assignment where he plays The Jackal. Diane Kruger’s performance as the illegal immigrant is extremely unconvincing. Grammatically correct English from a Bosnian who drives a taxi in Berlin. Am I missing a point here? Jaume Collet-Serra’s direction is quite solid to say the least. He does a good job in keeping you glued to the screen and looking forward to what would come next. At the same time, he is bad enough because one knows that there is something fishy about the good doctor and his wife from the first shot itself. Great action sequences and good impactful scenes pepper the entire movie. I believe it is a solid action flick making its appearance after a long time. Watch it. 7 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1552980505/
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris (January Jones) and Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) are from New Hampshire USA. They have just landed into Berlin for a Bio Technology Conference. Martin has been in conversation with Dr. Bressler (Sebastian Koch) for over 6 months now. Dr. Bressler has been in discussions with the Prince Shada (Mido Hamada) who is willing to put in truck loads of money towards ending the food problem in the world. The two scientists have been extremely involved in the entire process and as joke about how their wives must be crazy to stay married to them. Dr. Bressler has twin daughters – Lily and Laurel.
The married couple travel from the airport to the hotel where the summit is going to be held but Dr. Harris forgets his briefcase which is carrying all his identification. It gets left back on the strolley @ the airport. Once he realizes this, he leaves the hotel without checking in. But en route to the airport the car just about manages to avoid crashing into a refrigerator but is unable to avoid flying off the bridge and into the river below. The driver, Gina (Diane Kruger) manages to drag Martin out of the water but funnily doesn’t stay back for the police to come in. She quietly slips away before the cops come in. Four days later, Martin wakes up in a hospital and has no idea how he got there. His last memory is that of getting out of the airport. It would seem that he was in a coma for the past four days and the bump onto his head has led to a temporary loss of memory. He does struggle out of bed after a couple of hours and gets back to the hotel only to be told that there is already a Dr. Martin Harris at the hotel. His wife, Elizabeth also refuses to acknowledge him as her husband and instead calls for the new Dr. Harris (Aidan Quinn).
Liam Neeson continues to put up a performance which has a lot of intensity in Unknown. A couple of dialogues stand out. One of them which says, “You know what its like to be insane doctor? Its like being in a war between being told who you are and knowing who you are”. And Neeson delivers this with absolute cold intensity. Great to see Aidan Quinn back in movies. The last I remember him from would be The Assignment where he plays The Jackal. Diane Kruger’s performance as the illegal immigrant is extremely unconvincing. Grammatically correct English from a Bosnian who drives a taxi in Berlin. Am I missing a point here? Jaume Collet-Serra’s direction is quite solid to say the least. He does a good job in keeping you glued to the screen and looking forward to what would come next. At the same time, he is bad enough because one knows that there is something fishy about the good doctor and his wife from the first shot itself. Great action sequences and good impactful scenes pepper the entire movie. I believe it is a solid action flick making its appearance after a long time. Watch it. 7 on 10 from my side.
Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1552980505/
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