Action Dud

CAST: Liam Neeson,Diane Kruger,January Jones,Frank Langella

Rating: **

After the first half an hour when Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) lands in snow-covered Berlin with wife (Jones),leaves his briefcase and passport at the airport,dashes back from hotel to get them,realises his phone isn’t functioning,and falls head on into the Spree river,only to wake up in a hospital with his memory gone,you know there’s little about Unknown that you haven’t seen before.

The director isn’t interested in following cab driver,Gina (Kruger),who rescues him from the water. Nor in Harris’s beautiful wife Elizabeth (Jones),who refuses to recognise him when the doctor lands up at the hotel where he left her.

This psychological drama ends up as an action thriller,with car chases,explosions and the like. Neeson’s fists put in a lot of work,but what one can’t help pitying are his furrowed brows — that never get a moment of clarity.