Family-Faith Film Review: Unknown
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting
Unknown — Injured in a taxi accident while visiting Berlin for a biotechnology conference, an American botanist (Liam Neeson) awakens to find that his wife (January Jones) doesn’t recognize him and that a stranger (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. His efforts to unravel the mystery are aided by the cab driver (Diane Kruger) who saved his life in the smashup and by an ex-East German secret police official (Bruno Ganz) now working as a private investigator. Based on Didier van Cauwelaert’s novel — and also featuring Frank Langella as the stateside colleague to whom the scientist turns to confirm his story — director Jaume Collet-Serra’s reasonably diverting thriller benefits from Neeson’s strong presence. A late-reel conversion story aside, though, there is little on offer beyond surface entertainment. Brief semi-graphic marital lovemaking, considerable hand-to-hand violence, a suicide, fleeting sexual humor, a few uses of profanity, a couple of instances each of crude and crass language. A-III — adults. (PG-13) 2011
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