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Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2011)

I saw many clips of this on television in small trailers, so I knew a little about the premise, but of course I had to see it all, from director Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan). Basically American Bio-technologist Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) arrives in Berlin with beautiful wife Elizabeth (January Jones) to attend the Biotechnology Submit, but they have some luggage missing at the hotel. Taking a taxi to go back to the airport, he and his driver Gina (Inglorious Basterds' Diane Kruger) have an accident, falling off a bridge and crashing into the river, she rescues him but disappears from the scene. Martin regains consciousness after spending four days in a coma, he has suffered temporary amnesia, but he remembers who he is, his wife and the purpose of his visit. Leaving the hospital immediately he gets security to find his wife, but she appears not to recognise him and another man, Martin B (Aidan Quinn), in fact she is deliberately refusing to identify him. Martin realises his identity has been stolen, his only hope to is to find the taxi driver, the only witness, to help prove who he is, but she for a while refuses as she is worried he will force her out of the country. He also finds Ernst Jürgen (Downfall's Bruno Ganz) who is an expert in "finding" people, of course at the same time there are men trying to find and seemingly kill Martin, including Rodney Cole (Frank Langella). The big plot is to assassinate Prince Shada visiting the country, and after eventually realising he is not really Dr. Martin Harris, but a professional hit-man assigned to this job, he does everything with his newfound conscience to prevent this plan, and the end he seems to disappear with Gina. Also starring Sebastian Koch as Professor Leo Bressler, Karl Markovics as Dr. Farge, Stipe Erceg as Jones and Rainer Bock as Herr Strauss. It is a similar style of role as he played in Taken, but Neeson is good being confused and aggressive in moments, the supporting cast members, including Kruger and Ganz, get their moments too, there are small slow downs and the stolen identity plot is a little up and down in parts, imitating Bourne or something, but overall it's not a bad conspiracy style thriller. Worth watching!