- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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3 out of 5
American botanist Liam Neeson awakens after a Berlin car accident to find no one recognises him in Orphan director Jaume Collet-Serra's solid Euro thriller. Shifting between identity-theft mystery and geo-political intrigue before propelling headlong into an assassination-bureau conspiracy plot, this well-maintained puzzler remains tautly suspenseful even through some preposterous moments. Neeson (back in action-man Taken mode) makes for a likeable everyman hero, January Jones (TV's Mad Men) is ice-cool as his Hitchcock-blonde wife and Diane Kruger plays his taxi-driver saviour, while Bruno Ganz engages as the ex-Stasi investigator trying to learn the sinister truth behind the intricate deception. Unravelling the jigsaw clues is a lot of fun, while the changes rung during the familiar ticking-bomb countdown finale marks Collet-Serra as a genuinely gifted genre specialist.
Plot Summary
Thriller starring Liam Neeson. While in Berlin for a biotechnology conference, scientist Dr Martin Harris is involved in a car accident that leaves him in a coma. He wakes up four days later with gaps in his memory and no identification, but then when he returns to his hotel, his wife Elizabeth doesn't recognise him.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Dr Martin Harris
- Liam Neeson
- Gina
- Diane Kruger
- Elizabeth Harris
- January Jones
- Rodney Cole
- Frank Langella
- Martin B
- Aidan Quinn
- Ernst Jürgen
- Bruno Ganz
- Professor Bressler
- Sebastian Koch
- Doctor Farge
- Karl Markovics
- Jones
- Stipe Erceg
- Herr Strauss
- Rainer Bock
Crew
- Director
- Jaume Collet-Serra
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