{"id":5074,"date":"2011-02-23T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:41:28","slug":"unknown-unknowingly-could-be-a-great-thriller-but-full-of-too-many-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=5074","title":{"rendered":"‘Unknown’ Unknowingly Could be a Great Thriller, But Full of too many Cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unknown Unknowingly Could be a<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great Thriller, But Full of Cliches<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n

Has there ever been a sunny, colorful movie set in Berlin?\u00a0 Years after the Cold War wall has come down, the city still seems perpetually drab and forbidding to most Americans.\u00a0 So, when Dr. and Mrs. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson; January Jones) touch down in the gray, snowy city in the new thriller, Unknown<\/em>, you aren\u2019t too surprised when, with less than ten minutes off the clock, more than the weather has turned forboding.<\/p>\n

With a Hitchcockian bang, Dr. Harris becomes the wrong man in the wrong place, as he survives an accident, only to discover that he doesn\u2019t exist.\u00a0 Insisting that his wife can identify him, Martin makes his way back to their hotel, only to have \u201cLiz\u201d not only deny she knows him, but link arms with a man (Aidan Quinn) she claims is the \u201creal\u201d Dr. Harris.<\/p>\n

Maybe Dr. Bressler, the summit\u2019s man-of-the moment can help Martin, if Martin can shake off pursuers.\u00a0 But, the \u201cfake\u201d Martin has already gotten to Bressler, and he appears to know every detail of the \u201creal\u201d Martin\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

The mystery deepening, and the danger escalating after an attempt on his life, Martin seeks the services (\u201chelp me find me\u201d) of one Ernst Jurgen (Bruno Ganz), a former member of East Germany\u2019s secret police. He’s a curious man who knows he could be just one phone call away from his past fatally catching up with him.\u00a0 Jurgen tells Martin to find the taxi driver who pulled him from the river.<\/p>\n

Gina (Diane Kruger) is an illegal from Bosnia.\u00a0 She wants to stay under the radar and she wants to stay alive; but there is something about Martin\u2019s desperate need to reclaim his life that puts her in his corner, even as she\u2019s dragged out of her corner of Berlin to go on the run with Martin.\u00a0 With Jurgen checking out the details of Martin\u2019s story, Martin appeals to long-time friend Rodney Cole (Frank Langella) for help.\u00a0 But, Cole\u2019s arrival will only add to the life-and-death urgency of Martin\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n

A situation that involving a hunger-banishing strain of corn, a bomb, an assassination and Martin realizing that no matter what mistakes he has made in his life up to this defining moment, \u201cwhat matters is what I do now.\u201d\u00a0 Full of thriller clich\u00e9s, sore thumb plot points, un-called-for sex scenes masquerading as flashback memories, and flat-line acting from Neeson, Unknown<\/em> unknowingly has the germ of a truly good thriller with the character of Jurgen as acted with understated elegance by Ganz.<\/p>\n

There are more atmospheric thrills in Jurgen\u2019s drably modest apartment and Ganz\u2019s worldly-wise, sad-sack face than in all the film\u2019s bloated action.\u00a0 A Warner Brothers release, rated PG-13 for violence and sexual content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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