Smart and lean

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2011)

Comparisons with Taken, Liam Neeson's action tour de force, are both apt and improper. This is much more of a thriller, where a doctor wakes from a coma to find that only he believes who he is. Thanks to how the film start, so does the audience and the script smartly makes you doubt the main character after a while.
But this is not a mystery film and it soon cranks up the dials, converting into a pseudo-action movie that is just on the border of believable. A lot of this goes to Neeson, whose worst talent as an actor is to fake an American accent. His best, though, is his screen presence and ability to take the audience along. Give him a well-paced script and he does brilliantly. And here he does brilliantly. Even if you see the twist coming, you'll enjoy the ride.