Liam Neeson’s lost his identity in the forthcoming thriller, Unknown. You can see the new trailer right here…
"I am Martin Harris!" Liam Neeson gruffly announces, in the new trailer for his forthcoming thriller, Unknown. Sporting a strikingly similar haircut and leather jacket as he did in Pierre Morel's 2008 action flick, Taken, Neeson stars as a doctor who, after emerging from a nasty car crash in Berlin, finds that his wife (Mad Men and X-Men: First Class' January Jones) doesn't recognise him, and that a group of shadowy assassins are out for his blood.
Unknown has the kind of scenario that you'd expect to find (albeit with a narcotic, sci-fi twist) in a Philip K Dick novel, or in quiet TV movie mysteries such as Vanishing Act (a surprisingly effective little film starring Elliot Gould, Margot Kidder, and the late, great Fred Gwynne), but Spanish director Jaume-Collet Serra's thriller appears to place far more emphasis on action than paranoid angst.
That's the impression we get from the trailer, at least, though this could be merely down to a cunning pair of hands in the editing suite. Whether Unknown is as action-filled as it looks or not, we're quietly enthusiastic about seeing Neeson in another thriller. A reliably entertaining screen presence, he's as adept at delivering crisp, terse lines of dialogue as he is at breaking bad guys' noses.
Unknown is due for release in UK cinemas on 25 February.
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