Brilliant script

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2012)

A very satisfying thriller with a brilliant script full of misdirection taking us along for the ride noticing little inconsistencies and oddities and then at the end a total surprise ending makes all those questions fall neatly into place. For me it was the script that put it way above the normal fare and then all the elements were well executed. And it's always fun with a thriller for an audience to be taken to a foreign locale and in this case seeing much of the city of Berlin from the heights to the depths. Our total sympathies lie with the Liam Neeson character who is trying to establish his identity and the very people he knows so well refuse to acknowledge that they know him. And the ending managed to work out to everyone's satisfaction, most of all the audience. A good example of the thriller genre with the complexity modern audiences demand. A much more interesting movie than TAKEN which was a linear recover my daughter story.