"Unknown"-Instead of losing his loved ones, Liam Neeson here loses his memory, wife, and maybe even his mind!

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2017)

Just early into the New Year, I, one who saw this in its 2011 original release, and am watching it right now, on Amazon Streaming, have finally taken it upon myself to review it six years now.
To jdkraus from Mainevillo, Ohio. Just with all due respect, you're a wee bit off with your proffered 2008 release date for "Taken", the earlier, somewhat similar monster blockbuster, but it was one year behind, 2009 the real release date,so no harm done with the wrong date, since 2008 was before 2009.
Now onto the review. This film, with Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, and January Jones, taking time off from some TV "Mad Men", take the lead here.
Neeson is a spy who goes overseas with wife Jones, goes in a taxi, crashed into a navigable river, and then winds up amnesiac in the hospital. He knows of being Dr.Martin Harris (but it's not sure and I sure as heck ain't gonna spoil this here).. and then spends the first part of the flick running up against an impostor, a January Jones who does not even recognize him, a kid-nap, or adult spy-nap..to coin a phrase, where he again winds up in some hospital, a sinister following by someone through a tunnel,, then meets Diane Kruger (always lovely as ever..) who becomes the best person to happen to him, almost a girlfriend, and offers him (Neeson:)"a place to crash') This friendship is off and on as she b word slaps him at a hip disco, suspecting something, wins up with wife Jones, being more her Mad Men husbands type, and from here I ain't gonna spend any more time here, because it would spoil it.
You just gotta watch, or what ever, or hey. Read other reviewers.
Everyone, including Fox, has been "Taken" (a-hem!) with LIam Neesonm, and it shows with films (this is from Warners,though,not Fox) Trademark of losing or looking for someone or something is a longtime, and patented Neeson trademark, but commercially and creatively, you have to admit, it works. No big chases a lot with Fox's Taken movies but still a very good thriller.r