If you’re expecting to see a thriller filled with suspense and a confusing plot, then you are going to see the right movie.

The movie starts off with Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Nesson) with his wife Elizabeth Harris on their way to Berlin for a biotech conference in Berlin. In the airport, Dr. Harris and his wife grab a taxi and load their luggage into the cab. As the taxi pulls away, the camera pans over to Dr. Harris’s briefcase which has been left on a chair. Now it’s pretty obvious that the briefcase is important and will probably play a central role throughout the movie. The taxi takes Dr. Harris and his wife to the hotel. While his wife goes inside to check in, Dr. Harris unloads the luggage and notices that his briefcase isn’t there. Without telling his wife, he grabs a cab to go back to the airport. Of course, everything doesn’t go smoothly. His taxi ends up having to swerve through oncoming traffic, Dr. Harris hits his head on the window, the taxi flies over the edge of a bridge and into the water and Dr. Harris winds up in a coma for four days. When he wakes up, he finds out his wife doesn’t recognize him and also has another husband who apparently is the “real” Dr. Harris.

Already the audience can tell something is up. Why would Dr. Harris leave his wife at the hotel without letting her know where he is going? Well, while he’s on his way back to the airport in the taxi, he does try to call her but he has no cell service. Pretty unlikely that someone wouldn’t have cell phone service in Berlin. Also, we find out that Dr. Harris’s wife never came looking for him while he’s in a coma. If your wife doesn’t try to find you when you’ve gone missing for four days in a foreign country where she can’t even speak the language, then obviously something is up. The movie is told from Dr. Harris’s perspective which means that like Dr. Harris, we are just as confused about what is going on and who he is.

The rest of the movie plays out leaving the audience to question more and more with each event that happens. Eventually there are too many coincidences, and the whole story just seems too implausible. The only way Dr. Harris can figure out who he is, is to remember events from his past, but it turns out that the events that he can’t remember are the ones that would remind him exactly who he is. And the things he can remember seemingly trick the audience into thinking something completely different. Throughout the movie, Dr. Harris struggles to find “who he really is” and that kind of nonsense. But in reality, no one would do what he does. If your wife doesn’t remember you and is with another man, you have been in a coma for four days and don’t know who you are, and people are trying to KILL you, you would probably take the first flight back to America and figure out what the heck is going on.

All of the action and suspense building up to the climax keeps the audience intrigued in the movie, but everything after the climax all the way through the ending just ends up seeming odd and doesn’t really make sense. This movie had great potential, but the last half of the film ruins everything.

If you like movies such as “Taken,” which Neeson also starred in, then you’ll probably like “Unknown.” It keeps you guessing and is by no means a bad movie. There are plenty of action scenes and the plot keeps the audience engaged so there are never any boring parts or dull moments.

CW film critic rating: 2 ½ out of 4 starts