Krishna
Liam Neeson has established a particular brand of character that he plays well. Taken and then Taken 2 are some examples of the story. In this movie, he does a very similar character but with a twist in the story.
He plays Dr Martin Harris, a scientist, who is in Germany for a conference. His wife Liz is also a fellow scientist and is in for the same conference. When he lands and unloads his cart into the taxi, he forgets to take a briefcase and he therefore takes a cab back to the airport to retrieve it. Unfortunately, on the way, his cab has an accident and falls into a river. He is rescued but at the hospital, revives from a coma, having lost most of his memory about himself.
Things turn weirder because, he remembers at least his wife and the conference. He goes back to the hotel only to realize that his wife is a stranger to him and she has a Dr Martin Harris, a husband who is a totally different man, and he is completely confused.
His rescuer from the river is a girl called Gina. He meets with her again and finds that when he is in Gina’s apartment, a person was sent there to kill him! Gina manages to kill that person and he escapes with her, constantly pursued by unidentified killers, who want him dead for some strange reason that he does not know, having lost most of his memory.
When Martin gets the briefcase back, he is astounded by what he finds inside. Several fake passports for him in different names belonging to different countries, and also a lot of euros in cold, hard cash. Who is he really? Why does he need all these identities? He realizes that the answers lie in the conference that he came to attend, and decides to investigate. Armed security is really not going to stop him, now, is it?
He is kidnapped by the chief and let to die, but Gina, who he believed had left him, comes to save him. He now remembers everything and goes to the conference to stop the disasters
The twist in the story is terrific and explains the strange behaviours of a number of people around him. Nice to see the loose ends tied up so well.
But the cause (reason why this was all planned) is amateurish, like a graphic novel of the seventies. Liam is Liam, and does what he does well. The twists are interesting, but the story, for some reason is not taut, as in Taken. You always stay a few paces away, watching in a detached way, rather than being immersed into the story.
All in all, a fairly good movie and let us say a 6/10
— Krishna