UNKNOWN

I gave this movie a 5 and Bill rated it a 7. I didn't expect much but it was less entertaining than I thought it would be.

January Jones was thoroughly disconcerting with her wooden, restrained, expressionless, flat affect, catatonic appearance. It works for Mad Men but not here. She plays Liz, the wife of Liam Neeson (Martin) and fortunately, she is not in most of the movie.

Martin gets in a car crash soon after arriving in Berlin for a biotech conference and when he wakes up, his memory is all screwed and he finds out that another man has moved into his life role, along with his wife Liz.

The movie was filled with so many unbelievable scenes starting with Martin leaving a very very important briefcase with documents and passports and identification papers at the airport!!!!!!! and its the race back to the airport (without informing his wife who is checking in at the hotel; this was unbelievable #2) which results in his accident and then his memory problems.

The car chases - way too many - could have been taken from any other movie; nothing unusual including the fact that absolute mayhem can occur including ruined property and wrecked cars and markets and stores plowed into all through the city and there never appears any law and order personnel. Its like the police are all busy eating sugar doughnuts or bratwurst.

Even though the twist at the end involving Martin and Liz's identity was clever and unexpected, the movie continued and the real ending was stupid as Martin suddenly changed from a bad guy to an upstanding good guy.

I wish this movie had stayed Unknown. and January Jones is now on my list of people which is composed of 'actors' that i will avoid seeing in movies if they are part of the cast. Keanu Reeves is on that list along with Adam Sandler.