Liam Neeson plays a scientist who arrives in Berlin with his wife only to get into a car accident when trying to go back to the airport to retrieve a bag. When he finally is able to get back to the hotel, to resume his work for a convention, another man has taken his identity and his wife is insistent that she's never seen him before. What starts as a promising beginning, quickly becomes an exciting thriller with an ending that barely holds up to even mild scrutiny. That's not to say this movie sucks, it doesn't; I enjoyed it but I found my moral whistle in the back of my mind going off toward the end. Neeson is terrific as always and the rest of the cast does a nice job supporting him. Slick, exiting, fun and somewhat plausible, this is a nice rental but nothing more than that. Grade: B.
Spoilers: To explain the moral whistle comment above: At the end of the film the main character learns that he's a spy hired for a job and the man he thinks he was is a fiction or cover for his assignment. I get that this experience has changed him but it doesn't change the fact that he's a killer. Shouldn't he deal with some consequences or are we to believe that he's a good guy now and is a free?
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