While not being entirely original (I heard before and after the movie, from different people, that it had all been done before by The Gubernator in True Lies), this was still an absorbing Hitchcock / Bourne type of thing.
Liam Neeson plays a scientist visiting Berlin with his wife, in order to speak at a conference. They get to their hotel, and he realizes he's left his briefcase at the airport. While she checks in, he returns to the airport, but en route his taxi gets involved in an accident and ends up in the river. He is rescued and spends 4 days in a coma in hospital, but when he regains consciousness and heads off to the hotel to reunite with his wife, everyone (including the wife) says they don't know who he is. There's even another person with his name at the conference.
The story unfolds at a healthy pace, and the action is non-stop. Not much wrong with this at all, except for that nagging feeling that we've seen this before.
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