Laughable

Rating: 2/10 (20 February 2011)

First off...why all the comparisons to Taken? Sure, Neesom plays a guy with a scary skill set in both movies...so what? In Taken, he's fully aware of his skills and sets about using them to secure his abducted daughter's safety. In Unknown, he wanders through the almost entire length of the movie thinking he's a Doctor. He doesn't even realize he's a bad dude until the movie is all but over.
As for Unknown.....the plot is so full of huge holes it simply falls apart. I don't mind meeting a movie halfway...but really now...
-The cab driver who rescues Neesom from her cab as it sinks in a river is an illegal alien. Apparently she swam to the river bank, dragged Liam to safety and simply strolled away un-noticed. No questions from the Police or medical treatment for this gal, thanks. I'm outta here!
-Same illegal alien (now a waitress) is apparently the world's most trusting person, as she invites a complete stranger with a head injury into her home for the night. Well hey, he did give her a really nice watch. We're then led to believe there is an instant sexual chemistry between hottie illegal and brain-hurt grampa, sparked by the 'ol "neighbors knockin' the boots on the other side of the wall" scenario. Right.

Those contrivances are nothing compared to the garbage the viewer is asked to believe as this movie rolls on. The whole sinister plot to get close enough to a scientist so they can kill him without looking like they killed him is absurd. The same group that puts these complex assassinations together apparently are bumbling idiots when it comes to offing old dudes with memory loss issues.

-To sum up the utter stupidity. it's revealed that Neesom is actually a highly trained killer with multiple identities. Yet after (finally) being tasered into submission and thrown into a van, what happens next? The bad guys simply execute Neesom and all the people who tried to kill him for the previous 2 hours get a good chewing out, right?
Wrong.
For some reason, they take him to a parking garage, where it's explained to him that his bumped head is putting their stupid year-long plan in danger, and so we're gonna have to kill you now. But first, let's take some more time to beat the crap out of Liam for a few more minutes, before actually killing him by drug overdose, so the death will appear accidental. ??????????????????????????????????
This of course gives his new partner just enough time to track him down, because the bad guys parked just close enough to the edge of the parking garage for her to spot them as she glanced up on the way by. Wow.
Best part of this disaster was when the final credits rolled.