Unknown (2011)

“Do you know what it feels like to become insane? It’s a war between being told who you are and knowing who you are… Which do you think wins?”

From Director Jaume Collet-Serra and Producer Joel Silver, the team that brought us 2005’s HOUSE OF WAX and 2009’s ORPHAN, comes the psychological action-drama-thriller from Warner Brothers Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment called “UNKNOWN”. Based on the novel “Out of My Head” by French author Didier Van Cauwelaert and originally entitled “UNKNOWN WHITE MALE”, The film tells the story of Martin Harris (Liam Neeson – Schindler’s List, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Michael Collins, Taken, and The A-Team), an American doctor, who awakens from a coma after being in a car accident in Berlin and soon discovers that someone has taken on his identity. With no one believing who he really is, being hunted by mysterious assassins, and with the help of an unlikely ally named Gina (Diane Kruger - Inglorious Basterds, National Treasure), Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question about not only just his identity, but his sanity, and just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth about who he really is. The film also stars January Jones (TV’s Mad Men, American Wedding) as Martin’s wife Elizabeth Harris, Aidan Quinn (Benny & Joon, Legends of the Fall) as Martin B., Bruno Ganz (The Reader) as Ernst Jürgen, and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps) as Rodney Cole. Carrie Keagan of NGTV said “It’s TAKEN meets THE BOURNE IDENTITY”, and I totally agree with her. I thought this was a very entertaining movie that had me guessing till the very end. I enjoyed a lot more than TAKEN and I credit Neeson’s performance one of the best I’ve ever seen him in. The movie was filmed entirely on location in Berlin, Germany from December 16th, 2009 to March 28th, 2010 with a budget of $ 30 million. I recommend UNKNOWN to all movie lovers, and I make it the first best film I’ve seen in 2011.