Good movie, but could have been so much better

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2011)

I saw this movie with my best friend, and my dad. And we saw this movie on the opening night when it came out. First of, let me tell you about the guy who directed this movie. It was directed by the same guy who directed the terrible House of Wax movie with Paris Hilton. Yeah, this director is basically not a big name director. He has come a long way after that movie. If I were to describe this movie, it would be slow in the beginning, it picks up in the middle, and then it picks up major speed after that.
Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) and his wife (January Jones) go to Berlin for a Biotechnology summit. And then Martin realizes that he left his briefcase at the airport. So he takes a cab to go back to the airport and there is where he meets Gina (Diane Kruger). She decides to take a shortcut with less traffic, and then they get pushed off the bridge after evading a refrigerator that falls off a truck. And when they hit the water, Martin hits his head on the window and he is knocked unconscious. Gina saves him, but flees the scene shortly after saving him. The next day, Martin wakes up in the hospital on thanksgiving day after he had a coma for four days. After he checks out of the hospital, he goes back to the hotel where the summit is being held to go see his wife. And all of a sudden, his wife doesn't know who he is. And another Martin Harris takes his place and posing as the other Martin Harris. After this happens, Martin tries to go and get his life back while recovering from his amnesia. And later on he teams up Gina and tries to survive from the assassins that try to kill them both.
The movie was slow in the beginning but soon picks up the pace after. And in Taken, Liam knew how to fight. In this movie, he gets beat up a lot, and Diane Kruger's character winds up killing the bad guys, and Liam doesn't gain his fighting skills back until the end of the movie. The beginning was slow, but after that the rest was so darn good. This movie should be seen at a matinée in theaters, but a definite buy when it comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray.