Please don't read unless you want to know the end of "Unknown" with Liam Neeson!!
We rented "Unknown" last night, and when it ended, I realized it was just another "re-imagining" of an old plot. I looked through the myriad of posts on Rotten Tomatoes to see if anyone else had gotten the same idea, but I guess no one remembers history either.
(Spoiler alert)
It's a rehash of "Total Recall" without the cheezy CG!!
Nice guy finds out people are trying to kill him... "wife" winds up being just a "bad-guy" partner,... takes up with pretty girl/good fighter,... finds out he's been brainwashed (or amnesia) and was a real creep beforehand,... stops the "bad guys" who used to be his friends and associates,... and lets the masses get free stuff that they had been paying for before!! "Total Recall"-free air, "Unknown"- free corn... yes, I said corn.
There was even an African American taxi-driver thrown in (although in Recall he turned out to be a bad guy, in Unknown you don't trust him, but he dies).
There HAVE to be original scripts languishing out there waiting to be tried that aren't remakes or re-imaginings!! Hollywood is just a big snooze these days!
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