I should warn you that Unknown gets very silly towards the end, but it's still a twisty, proficient B-movie thriller. And in many ways it's even better than Taken, building up a nice atmosphere of Polanski-esque paranoia, and throwing in a lot of skidding car-chases.
An unmemorable Euro-thriller that frustrates more than it thrills, squandering an attractive cast and inventive premise.
Unknown is more The Return of Martin Guerre meets Memento.
There are holes in the plot, but the film skips over there. It exhilarates us with lithe liberties no less than with crack cameos.
The plot twists are occasionally loopy but Neeson is on safe turf here and director Collet-Serra shows a deft eye for an action sequence.
By the time Unknown had ended there had been so many handbrake turns and howling improbabilities I barely knew who I was, never mind the real identity of Dr Martin Harris.
Scene by scene, the movie is clunky and laughable, but it’s certainly never dull.
Neeson is a stolid, alpha-male presence but, to me, he never looks seriously scared or worried.
A stodgy and leaden thriller.
A very straightforward thriller.
As a psychological teaser it has nothing on Memento, and the denouement is the daftest imaginable, but there's a serviceable urgency even once plausibility is knocked out cold.
Fun for an hour. After that, Unknown plums hitherto unknown depths of silliness.
The film, directed by Spanish genre hack Jaume Collet-Serra, seems to have confused itself with a sedate character piece when the premise demands relentless brain-off fun.
Lacks the thrills and dramatic charge of kidnap-thriller Taken.
A good psychological thriller.
Enjoy it and then forget it.
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