Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:55 am
Liam Neeson is Martin Harris. He's a happily married man on a trip to Berlin with his wife (January Jones) for a conference where he's the key note speaker. Soon after their arrival he gets into an accident and slips into a four day coma. When he wakes up, his wife claims she has no idea who he is, and she's with another man who claims to be Martin Harris.
Taken was awesome, so I was looking forward to another action thriller with Liam, but this movie is terribly written. It's a shame because it has some potential, and the acting is good, but it's just not entertaining.
The plot is a mess. First of all, the coma that the entire film is based upon should have been the end of the movie for Liam. Once you are exposed to the story, you quickly realize how absurd it is that this situation ever occurred. Secondly, there's an investigator that Liam hires whose role in the film is pretty pointless. It starts off intriguing, but rapidly goes downhill. WAY, WAY downhill. Third, there's a moment late in the film when Liam knows everything, and the movie should have just ended right then and there. In fact, I'm not really sure why there was a difference in opinion between him and the antagonists at all aside from his accident, which makes no sense.
Also, they make January Jones look like an idiot, which again, doesn't fit the plot at all.
The whole film tries to be really smart, but fails completely.
Skip this and see Taken instead.
3 out of 10.
Taken was awesome, so I was looking forward to another action thriller with Liam, but this movie is terribly written. It's a shame because it has some potential, and the acting is good, but it's just not entertaining.
The plot is a mess. First of all, the coma that the entire film is based upon should have been the end of the movie for Liam. Once you are exposed to the story, you quickly realize how absurd it is that this situation ever occurred. Secondly, there's an investigator that Liam hires whose role in the film is pretty pointless. It starts off intriguing, but rapidly goes downhill. WAY, WAY downhill. Third, there's a moment late in the film when Liam knows everything, and the movie should have just ended right then and there. In fact, I'm not really sure why there was a difference in opinion between him and the antagonists at all aside from his accident, which makes no sense.
Also, they make January Jones look like an idiot, which again, doesn't fit the plot at all.
The whole film tries to be really smart, but fails completely.
Skip this and see Taken instead.
3 out of 10.