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Pérdida de memoria, Berlín invernal, agentes secretos, carreras de coches, femme fatale fría, jeque árabe, taxista confiable y agradable, científico brillante, poderosos personajes que están detrás de todo, asesinos a sueldo, giro inesperado. Y también un gran elenco. Tiene todo, pero solo en forma reciclada y, a veces, en una forma recargada. En La Huérfana anterior, Collet-Serra logró agitar los clichés del género, pero aquí no. La única escena memorable de la película es el escalofriante encuentro atmosférico de los grandes actores Bruno Ganz y Frank Langella. (01.05.2011)

Výborný thriller s mými oblíbenci Liamem Neesonem a Diane Kruger. Dobře vybudované napětí, kvalitní scénař a pro mě nečekaná pointa. Diane Kruger potvrzuje svůj obrovský jazykový talent, umí hrát s přízvuky, jen si režisér v jedné scéně nevšimnul, že by kromě angličtiny s balkánským přízvukem měla svůj přízvuk držet i v němčině :-) Ale to je jen detail, budiž odpuštěno. (05.06.2011)

Unknown doesn't come up with groundbreaking or new. By unraveling the puzzle surrounding the main character's identity(ies), it additionally brings back into play one recent fashion wave, BUT... Jaume Collet-Serra proves once again, after the brilliant Orphan, that his first film was a necessary evil for its time in order for him to enter Hollywood, and only now can he show what all is brewing within him. I won't lament the plot, which again follows a template that has been seem many times. Serra has a way with actors that is absolutely perfect, and his baby works especially when he’s playing the paranoia card. The ending, however, offers something that has not failed to amaze me of late. That something is the current acting position of Liam Neeson, who, on the verge of sixty, has switched to the role of uncompromising action hero who hides under the guise of civilian ordinariness, only to shoot accurately and deliver a hard hits at the right moment. His ruthless charisma permeates the entire film and makes you forget that it doesn't fit the logic in places. PS: The extremely kind Arab sheik and a former Stasti member as positive characters? :) (27.05.2011)

A step backwards from Orphan, though it looks very promising at the beginning. A Hitchcockican hero with the world turned against him wanders around in snowy Berlin, trying to figure out who he is. And when he does figure it out, everything goes to hell. A decent thriller, but it had a lot more potential. (31.05.2011)

Many reviews here mention something about a (dumb) punchline suffering from lapses in logic. Quite on the contrary, I think that the story logically (whether or not clever, is a different matter) links and smooths out apparent over-complexity and lapses in logic with something that makes sense, but you must bear in mind that this is a genre movie not pretending to be anything more, so it would be naive to expect anything sophisticated à la Hitchcock. And it works fine, the same as the story in the last thirty minutes. When you add to this the uncompromising Neeson, the snowy atmosphere of Berlin and the great car chases, then... You simply have a quality genre movie. (03.06.2011)