Nothing is what it seems in Dr Harris' life

Rating: 7/10 (2 October 2013)

When Dr Martin Harris and his wife Elizabeth arrive in Berlin things get off to a bad start when his briefcase is left at the airport. They soon get much worse for the doctor; as he returns to collect it his taxi is involved in an accident which leaves him in a coma for four days and when he awakens he has no way of proving who he is another man has taken his place and his wife denies all knowledge of him. Understandably he starts to question his own sanity and sets about tracking his movements to see if he can discover the truth. His only help is Gina; his taxi driver at the time of the accident and Ernst Jürgen; a former member of the Stasi. As his investigation proceeds it appears that he has got caught up in a plot to assassinate a Saudi prince and there are people willing to kill to ensure that he doesn't expose their plans!
This film may be more than a little bit silly but I enjoyed it none the less; in fact I enjoyed it much more than I'd thought I would. The action is genuinely exciting and there are plot twists coming think and fast so that we never fully know what is going on until the end. Liam Nielson puts in a good performance as Dr Jones and Diana Kruger is good as Gina although it is Bruno Ganz who really steals the show as Jürgen. The Berlin location is used well; adding to the feeling that Dr Harris is lost in just about every way possible. This might not be as exciting as the Bourne trilogy, despite what the blurb on the DVD box hints, but fans of films like those should rather enjoy this.