Unknown 2011

When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, unknown 2011, he teams up with a young woman to unknown 2011 who he is. Martin Harris : Do you know what it feels like to become insane, doctor?

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, not even his wife , believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is. Stephen Cornwell Oliver Butcher. Didier van Cauwelaert. Timothy Alverson Richard Ketteridge. Helmut Prein Martin Smith. Richard Bridgland.

Unknown 2011

Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. At their hotel, Harris realizes he left his briefcase at the airport and takes a taxi to retrieve it. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree , knocking him unconscious. The driver rescues him but flees the scene. Harris regains consciousness at a hospital after being in a coma for four days. When Harris returns to the hotel, he discovers Liz with another man. Liz says this man is her husband and declares she does not know Harris. The police are called, and Harris attempts to prove his identity by calling a colleague named Rodney Cole, to no avail. He writes down his schedule for the next day from memory. When he visits the office of Professor Leo Bressler, whom he is scheduled to meet, "Dr. Harris" is already there.

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Is there a term for the Paradox of Intended Accidental Consequences? That's when a movie shows something that must be an accident, and it turns out to be part of a plan. Since "Unknown" opens with examples of such events, it won't be a spoiler for me to discuss them. I'll bail out before the tricky stuff. As the movie opens, we meet Dr. I'm thinking all we need to know about biotechnology in a thriller is that it probably involves either genetically altered crops or dangerous plagues.

When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is. Martin Harris : Do you know what it feels like to become insane, doctor? It's like a war between being told who you are and knowing who you are. Which do you think wins? Sign In Sign In.

Unknown 2011

Martin Harris and his wife Liz arrive in Berlin for a biotechnology summit. At their hotel, Harris realizes he left his briefcase at the airport and takes a taxi to retrieve it. The taxi is involved in an accident and crashes into the Spree , knocking him unconscious. The driver rescues him but flees the scene. Harris regains consciousness at a hospital after being in a coma for four days. When Harris returns to the hotel, he discovers Liz with another man. Liz says this man is her husband and declares she does not know Harris. The police are called, and Harris attempts to prove his identity by calling a colleague named Rodney Cole, to no avail. He writes down his schedule for the next day from memory. When he visits the office of Professor Leo Bressler, whom he is scheduled to meet, "Dr.

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He pulls himself together and races to the hotel, only to find that his wife says she has never seen him before and is happily married to the "real" Dr. In that movie, the wrong briefcase was picked up at the airport, Ford stepped into the hotel shower, and when he stepped out, he found his wife had vanished. Top credits Director Jaume Collet-Serra. Learn more. Was it an accident he left the briefcase behind? Bernhard Henrich. Martin goes to meet Professor Bressler Sebastian Koch , a German bioscientist with whom he had had phone calls about their plans to revolutionize food production. Roger Ebert February 16, Liz says this man is her husband and declares she does not know Harris. Recently viewed. Martin kills Martin B with a glass shard.

Conspiracy thriller Unknown is loaded with intriguing ideas about identity, insanity … and being bad. Then he loses his briefcase and, in the rush to get it back, winds up in a coma.

Cole and the hit man take Martin to the top level of a deserted parking garage. User reviews Review. Olivier Schneider Smith. Now aware of his own role in the assassination plot, Harris seeks to redeem himself by thwarting it. Action sequences are well-executed and Liam Neeson owns this genre. But when he arrives, Martin B is already there. Suddenly, during his deep four-day coma, Harris' world has turned upside down--another man has taken over his life and identity, claiming that he is the real Dr Harris; his wife, Liz, backs up the stranger's story, and above all, no one believes him. Was it planned that he would be able to walk into the biotechnology conference and find the real or fake Dr. Liam Neeson delivers a great lead performance as usual and the film is always engaging. Burn on, my friends. Richard Bridgland. In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. John Ottman Alexander Rudd. FAQ John Ottman Alexander Rudd.