It requires tremendous suspension of disbelief, that much is sure. Oh, it's slow (at least for the better part of seventy minutes).
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So why the decent score? For all its flaws, for all its ridiculous twists and turns, for all its chewy genre performances, Unknown held my undivided attention until the madcap end. just international intrigue that, frankly, doesn't know when to quit. No aliens, no supernatural mumbo jumbo, no purgatorial dreamscapes. Yes, it plays things relatively straight. Come to think of it, Unknown stitches together the remains of at least seven different films, making it as derivative as it is cumbersome and as predictable as it is uneven. And just when things can't get any more convoluted (or any more reminiscent of Roman Polanski's Frantic), it takes a sharp right at, jams its foot on the action-accelerator and never looks back. It creeps and stalls, lurches and lunges, shrugging off any and every glaring plot hole that might put another thriller out of its misery. Unknown is a plot twist wrapped inside of a riddle slathered in complete and utter implausibility.