The Silver Screen
Neeson not a complete 'Unknown' in middling thriller
Actor is back kicking international butt in new action movie
The Liam Neeson-goes-to-a-European-capital-and-kicks-butt genre is extended to yet another film with "Unknown," an identity-based thriller in which Neeson does battle with mysterious thugs in Berlin. The movie takes the genre in some unique directions and has some genuinely thrilling moments, but "Unknown" is hurt by both a lack of originality and often poor direction. And there's none of the over-the-top action thrills that Neeson brought to "Taken." The film starts as a Hitchcockian thriller with a mystery at the heart of it, but becomes more and more like "The Bourne Identity" the longer it goes on, what with the European setting, the amnesia and more. Neeson is Dr. Martin Harris, an American scientist in Berlin for a conference with …
Ruth Z. Deming
7:36 am on Friday, February 18, 2011
well-done review, mr silver. since both you and i are mature viewers, we have high standards for our movies. maybe in a future column, you can share some of your favorites, which i will then check out at either the abington or upper moreland library. my current batch includes the amazing 'alice's house,' a gorgeously lovingly filmed flick about alice's dysfunctional family in sao paolo. more ›