
A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man... (Full plot summary below)
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A biochemist and his dishy wife arrive in Berlin for a conference at which a scientist and his controversial Arab funder will announce breakthrough research. While his wife checks into the hotel, he grabs a cab to return to the airport for his briefcase, left at the curb. En route, an auto accident puts him in a coma, from which he awakes four days later without identification and with gaps in his memory. He goes to the hotel: his wife refuses to recognize him and another man has claimed his identity. With help from a nurse, the cab driver, a retired Stasi agent, and an academic friend, he tries to unravel what's going on. Is the answer in the briefcase?
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| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirA stylish and muscular thriller with some nifty twists and turns, a wicked sense of humor, several terrific performances and not one or even two but three of the best car chases in recent action-flick history. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekAlmost everybody's got amnesia in Unknown, and after watching it you might pine to be similarly afflicted. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNeeson has a way of getting upset - a frantic purposefulness - that fills viewers with both empathy and anticipation: He's so miserable that we care. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallUnknown is finely tuned pulp filmmaking, a dumb movie with a smart veneer, which is nothing to sneeze at. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of "Memento." |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaIt's all very Hitchcockian, at least for a while. And clever and exciting, too, even if the convergences begin to strain credulity, and, when you think about it, defy logic, too. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayThe weakest link in Unknown - okay, other than the utter preposterousness of its entire premise - is Jones, who as a modern-day version of Hitch's ice queens can't hold her own with the likes of Kim Novak, Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerEnjoyable thriller with superb performances, a decent plot and some thought-provoking ideas about identity and human nature underneath its twisty tale. |
| New York PostLou LumenickUnknown actually has enough of a sense of humor to admit what it is: hybrid corn. But it's been crossbred from Hitchcockian stock. |
| L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. ThompsonYou can't fault the cast on this one, but you can fault the way the big-name actors have been distributed. |