Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 2011 action-thriller film called: Unknown. Before
we start, be aware: there are spoilers! Dr Martin Harris is on a plane with his wife
Liz. They arrive in Berlin to attend a conference. Outside, they get into a taxi but in their haste,
Martin leaves his briefcase behind on a trolley. They plan to go to an exhibition on Saturday
after he has had lunch with Professor Bressler. As they arrive at the hotel, Martin realizes that
his briefcase is missing. Liz enquires about their room and is informed that it may not be available.
She is angered and notices Martin getting back into the taxi. He has no service on his phone
and gets caught in traffic. He asks the taxi driver to take a different route but on the
way they have an accident and the car crashes off a bridge. Martin is knocked unconscious.
The driver smashes her way through a window and gets him out of the car.
The paramedics arrive and manage to save his life as the driver leaves the scene.
Martin wakes in a hospital bed and is told that he has been in a coma for four days.
He wonders why his wife isn’t there but the Doctor tells him that he had no identification. Later,
a nurse tells him that no-one has been looking for him. His belongings are returned and he remembers
receiving an engraved watch from his wife as a gift on their honeymoon. He opens a book
that has a dedication from his father as well as some numbers written inside the cover. On the TV,
there is a report about the conference and he remembers that he was due to attend. The Doctor is
reluctant to let him go but gives him his contact details in case there are any complications.
Martin goes to the hotel and tells them he lost his room key. He sees his wife and tries to follow
her. The hotel security won’t let him pass as he has no ID. He is escorted to Liz but she claims
not to know him. Instead, she introduces a man who says that he is Dr Martin Harris.
Martin is removed from the room and taken to see the security cameras of their check in.
It is confirmed that Liz checked in during the morning and the ‘other’ Martin checked in at 3pm.
They are unable to confirm his identity. He demands to speak to his Embassy but as it is
Thanksgiving and the Embassy is closed. Instead he asks to be taken back to the hospital and see
the Doctor. He is put into a taxi but soon gets out and watches Liz eating through the window.
He goes to stay at a cheap hotel but they won’t let him stay without his passport. He goes outside
to make a call to his friend Rodney - telling him that he is in trouble. As he puts the phone down,
he notices a car is following him and heads into the subway. He is followed and jumps on
a train to escape. He starts to write down the appointments that he can remember.
He gets off the train and tears a page out of the phone book. Suddenly, he notices a taxi
like the one that he had the accident in and decides to go to the office. He asks about the
driver and finds her working in a bar. Her name is Gina but she tells him to leave her alone.
He goes to the appointment with Professor Bressler but finds that the ‘other’ Martin is already
there. Martin tries to convince the Professor that he is genuine but both Martins say the same
things to him. The ‘other’ Martin shows Martin his ID - including a picture of him with Liz.
Martin passes out. Back in the hospital,
the nurse gives Martin a phone number for her friend who is an investigator. The Doctor
apologizes for letting him leave early. Martin asks how he knows so much about Martin Harris
if he is not him. Martin is sedated and sent for an MRI scan. Afterwards the man from the
subway enters and tries to take him. The nurse tries to stop him but she is killed.
The man leaves the room and Martin manages to free himself and escapes in an ambulance.
When he gets out, he tries to call Liz but the ‘other’ Martin answers. Instead he goes
to meet Jurgen - the Investigator that the nurse recommended. He asks the man to help him prove
that he is the real Martin Harris. Martin shows him his father’s book with the numbers in it.
He tells Jurgen that his wife wrote the numbers. He also shows him the schedule for the week
that he wrote from memory. Martin suspects that this has been planned for months but believes that
there must be something that they have missed. Jurgen tells him that he will do his best to help
and Martin pays him all the money that he has. He tells him to check again with the taxi driver.
Martin goes to see Gina and tells her that he knows that she ran away from the accident
as she is an illegal worker. He gives her his watch and asks her to talk with Jurgen. Elsewhere,
Jurgen calls a man called Hans at the airport and asks for a favor.
Martin tells Gina what is happening and she gives him a place to sleep.
Hans searches for details on the attendees of the conference.
There is a link to a video of an assassination attempt on an Arab Prince named Shada.
Martin takes a look at some of Gina’s drawings. She is angry that he is looking at them without
permission. She tells him that she is saving to get enough money to get her papers and then
she can get out of there. There is a knock at the door and a man gives her some keys for a taxi.
Martin takes a shower and there is another knock at the door. Two men with guns force
entry and knock Gina out. They go to find Martin but he has climbed out onto the roof. One of the
men follows him out and goes down to the street. The other man is the man from the subway and waits
with Gina. Martin returns and fights with him until Gina attacks him in the neck with a syringe.
They leave in the taxi but nearly run into a car being driven by the other villain. He chases them
through the streets and tries to force them into the path of an oncoming tram. Ultimately both cars
crash and they seek refuge inside a club. Gina tells him that men like them murdered her
family and she is now angry that she has become involved in this.
She walks away and Martin opens his book and looks at the numbers. He realizes that it is a code
indicating certain words on pages in the book. He starts to crack the code when Gina reappears.
He apologizes for bringing trouble in her life and says that he will sort it out.
He tells Jurgen that he has solved the code. It is the scientific name of two common flowering plants
but they don’t know what it means. Jurgen asks how close Prince Shada is to Professor Bressler
and it appears that they are working together on progressive plans to solve world hunger.
He suspects that someone may be posing as Martin Harris to get close to the Prince in
order to assassinate him. Martin decides to find Liz according to his schedule.
Gina thinks that this isn’t a good idea. He follows Liz into the exhibition as planned
but notices that the other villain is also following her. Gina tries to message him to tell
him that the ‘other’ Martin is also on his way. Martin manages to get some time alone with Liz
but she asks why he is following her. She tells him that she can't get out - they will
kill them both. She tells him that he needs to find his briefcase before kissing him
and telling him that she loves him. As he leaves, he is joined by Gina and heads to the airport.
Meanwhile, Jurgen receives a letter from Hans that contains the airport security photographs
of Martin and Liz together. He receives a phone call from Martin’s friend Rodney
who says that he can verify his identity. He tells him that he will come right over. When he arrives,
Jurgen realizes that Rodney was a former mercenary
who is there to kill him. He dies due to poisons before Rodney can catch him.
Martin goes to claim his briefcase at the airport. Inside, it contains his passport and other papers.
Gina says that it isn’t safe to stay here but Martin insists that Liz told him to wait. Gina
gets up to leave and he gives her some money to say thank you. She worries that Liz may have told
them where he is and gives him back the watch before she leaves. Suddenly Rodney arrives and
explains that he has come to help. Gina is queuing for a taxi and notices Martin being abducted.
She steals a taxi and gives chase. Martin is dragged out of the van.
Rodney explains that this has never happened before - Martin really believes that he is
Martin Harris but Martin Harris does not exist. He was made up as a cover to get into the conference.
Martin’s memories are not real. The villain holds a gun to Martin as he demands to know who he
really is. Rodney explains that he was a trained assassin. The villain is about to shoot him
when Gina arrives and rams the villain into the van. The van falls to the ground, leaving both the
villain and Rodney dead. Martin opens Rodney’s suitcase and finds many fake passports for
both him and Liz. Upon further examination, they discover that he was in Berlin three months ago.
Martin tells Gina that the Prince will be assassinated this evening
and that Gina should have just let him drown. That night, the Prince arrives at the conference
followed by Professor Bressler with his young daughters. Liz welcomes the Prince to the party.
Meanwhile, Martin and Gina enter the building through the service entrance
but they are spotted by hotel security. The professor hands his laptop to Liz for safekeeping,
who plants a device to download his hard drive.
Liz finds the code from Martin’s father’s book. Martin and Gina are caught by security
and Martin tells them that he planted a bomb in the room when he was there three months ago.
Once the files are downloaded, Liz arms the bomb. The Professor is nervous and goes to
retrieve his laptop. Liz hands it back to him and then she and the ‘other’ Martin leave the party.
Security have been checking the camera footage from three months ago
and when they see the images of Martin and Liz, they decide to evacuate the building.
As ‘other’ Martin and Liz descend the stairs, Liz decides to go back to deal with the bomb as
she doesn’t want her face to be connected with a bomb that is no longer necessary.
Martin spots Bressler’s daughters and realizes that their names are the common names
of the plants that he used as passwords. Martin knows that if his research is accessed it could
be worth billions in the wrong hands and deduces that Bressler is the target, not the Prince.
Martin escapes from the security office and then fights the ‘other’ Martin who has returned to kill
Bressler. Liz fails to diffuse the bomb in time and is caught in the explosion. Martin begins to
remember more details of the plan and how he was complicit. He manages to kill the ‘other’ Martin
with a shard of broken mirror just as Gina enters. She steps forward and takes the weapon out of his
hand and then helps him out of the building. As the firefighters put out the blaze,
Bressler leaves with his daughters. The following day, he announces the
development of a new strain of corn that will go a long way to solving world hunger.
Martin gives Gina a fake passport so that she can do whatever she wants.
He also has a new identity and they get on a train to begin their new lives.
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