Who would've thought that by the end of the first decade of the millennium Liam Neeson, 58 YEARS OLD, is the new face of action. The mature, remarkably adept man taking care of businesswith swift fatal blows to the head and neck.
The Skinny: A doctor traveling in Berlin gets involved in an auto accident only to wake up 4 days later to a whole new nightmare: his wife claims to not know him, someone's stolen his identity and living his life, and a group of sinister assassins are unleashed to rub him out. Whats a guy to do but employ some good old fashioned ass-kicking all around?
The Tagline: Take Back Your Life
Release Date: Somewhere early 2011
The Helmer: Jaume Collet-Serra
The Casts:
The Prediction: You definitely can't go wrong with superstars and their action role. Its not so much the direction, but the actor himself and the screenplay. So if these two items work together well, then you've got a hit. Its also to some extent dependent on the genre employed, which in this case is an action thriller, and deeper still, about a desperate man of action. You know theres going to be ass-kicking, and you know someone somewhere is just waiting to be medievel'd on, with or without pliers and blowtorch. If you check out the trailer its more Bourne Identity than Taken, with the memory loss part, and the sketchy and dubious idea of identity; is he really who he believes he is? The only slight deviation would be the involvement of 'wife' and the 'husband' who has taken over his life completely. Its a nice touch to have it in Berlin, the stage for many explosive espionage action, and the blue-grey hue of the entire movie works well with the theme of greyness.
