Worth watching, and watching again

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2011)

Fortunately, much better than what looked like a copy-cat Inception film from the marketing. The marketing of films lately has been horrible, with the exception of that for horrible films. Sanctum, for example, is one of the best new films in theaters and it's already been pulled from half or more of the theaters it played.
Back to Unknown, it has an interesting and exceptionally used setting in Germany, along with very authentic filming, at least when car chases and explosions aren't involved. It rarely feels like your watching something filmed in a studio with a green-screen. The story also does a good job of leaving you hanging. Just when you think you know what's going on, there's another twist. Even when a character tells you what's going on, you're not sure if the character is lying. Something like a Philip K. Dick story without the sci-fi (OK, there's a little sci-fi).
About the only real thing wrong with it are the car chases and bombs (actually labeled plastic explosive - if you're going to oversimplify that much, you should at least add some humor/insight to it by putting a logo/brand name on it of an actual military contractor). Token, cliché action that would have been better cut. None of this kills the story, just annoying.
Overall, worth watching and watching again.