Thursday 14 July 2011

Unknown (Simon Brand, 2006)

Not the forgettable 2011 Liam Neeson thriller of the same title, but forgettable in its own right, this presents five men waking up locked in a warehouse in differing conditions of captivity and health, all stricken with amnesia. As with its namesake, the title makes little enough sense beyond that, being just a convenient lure to punters.
Unfortunate typecasting - Jim Caviezel will only ever be saintly - detracts from the suspense in working out who the bad guys and good guys might be, and flashbacks as the characters' memories start returning undo more of what remains to work the viewer's mind. A succession of plot twists stacks up towards the end, but that's to be expected and no compensation for starting off with a tired scenario in the first place.

4/10

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