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- 2011
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
Summary Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Martin plunges headlong into a deadly ...
Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra
Written By: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell, Didier Van Cauwelaert
- 2011
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
Unknown
56
6.6
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Summary Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Martin plunges headlong into a deadly ...
Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra
Written By: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell, Didier Van Cauwelaert
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
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45% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
47% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
56
45% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
47% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
8% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
A stylish and muscular thriller with some nifty twists and turns, a wicked sense of humor, several terrific performances and not one or even two but three of the best car chases in recent action-flick history.
Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of "Memento."
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 341 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
34% Mixed
116 Ratings
116 Ratings
10% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 341 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
34% Mixed
116 Ratings
116 Ratings
10% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
Jones delivers her line readings so robotically that even her truths sound like lies. She's got the look of a Hitchcock blonde, and the movements of a deer in the headlights. Even her kisses look fake.
Unknown is probably the movie "The Tourist" wanted to be, if it had a pulse. Its sheer momentum makes Neeson and Kruger more attractive than even Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
ignore the pileup of implausibilities and Unknown becomes a diabolically entertaining con game. Does it jerk you around? Yes. Suck it up. The ride's worth it.
As with its protagonist, Unknown boasts tantalizing issues buried deep beneath its frantic exterior, but little idea how to unlock or address them.
Unknown makes no sense at all, so you not only worry about Liam Neeson's judgment in movies, but you begin to wonder if he's forgotten how to read.
Didn't see anything wrong with it, good twist along with good acting.
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This is a very generic, by-the-book thriller featuring all genre specific clichés and a Liam Neeson acting with very little actual emotion. The story is very straightforward, and most twists until the very end were easy to figure out beforehand. It has a high tempo though, and there are many good action scenes - as well as a couple of less well-made sequences, such as the first car chase. The script is filled with holes and things that don't make sense, but they don't ruin the experience for the most part. They've tried to make another Taken out of this movie, but it just doesn't look or feel the same.
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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.
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America seems pretty hellbent on watching Liam Neeson kill foreigners. This thriller doesn't have any thrills, that's for sure. What it does have is an incoherent plot worsened by sloppy execution.
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I created a user name just to speak publicly about a movie that, I feel, is a cheap and mindless pile of garbage. The "Unknown" viewing experience goes like this: Liam Neeson flails around Berlin for about 1.5 hours telling everyone within five feet that he is who he says he his, then there is 0.5 hours worth of mildly discernible plot, then the movie ends. While those things happen, we hear Neeson deliver lines like "I'M DOCTOR MARTIN HARRIS" and "THIS MAN IS NOT DOCTOR MARTIN HARRIS" and "I remember how to kill you, **** We watch Frank Langella play Frank Langella. We watch January Jones use her brain to create sound with her throat and mouth, then explode (the highlight of the film, far and away, is watching January Jones explode). It's a crappy movie! Rating: Not Very Good!
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Production Company
Dark Castle Entertainment,
Panda Productions Inc.,
Canal+,
Horticus UK,
Studio Babelsberg,
StudioCanal,
TF1 Films Production
Release Date Feb 18, 2011
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Take back your life.
Website
https://www.facebook.com/unknown
Awards
Jupiter Award
• 2 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
