Unknown

Unknown (2011)

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Corrected entry: When Liam Neeson's character is in the crash into the river, he bangs his head on the glass, and the scar is seen to the viewer to be on the right hand side of his head, but during the car chase scene, the scar can be seen changing sides from left to right really frequently.

Correction: If you watch the scene where he is retrieving his briefcase there are actually scars on both sides of his forehead.

Corrected entry: When Doctor and Mrs Harris are being checked by customs, they get a stamp in their passport that reads 11 November 2011. But when Doctor Harris wakes up at the hospital after the crash, the doctor who treated him tells him it's Thursday November 24th and he's been in a coma for 4 days.

Correction: Look carefully. The date stamped in the passport says "20 Nov. 2011.

Corrected entry: When Dr. Harris is kidnapped and put in the black van by Cole, thug Gina steals a taxi to follow. When Gina drives off, the liftback door of the taxi is open awaiting luggage, but next shot it is closed.

Correction: It closed when she started the car. Right after the car starts it shows it automatically closing as the taxi driver tries run after it. Maybe it was automatic or maybe the momentum closed it, but in any case it's not a mistake as we see the trunk closing.

Corrected entry: When Martin Harris is attempting to prove who he is in the security office of the hotel, he asks the security to call a colleague. When he gives the number he says, "001.". International calls start with 011, not 001. (00:20:35)

Correction: Actually, you dial 011 to dial out of the US to another country, but you dial 001 when dialing from another country to the US, so the movie is correct.

Corrected entry: When Liam Neeson opens the multiple passports from his briefcase at the airport, the forenames and surnames of the identities are all the wrong way around.

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Correction: The passports are fakes. This is a character mistake on the part of whoever made them.

Factual error: In the last scene the ICE Train is leaving the station eastbound. It is not possible to enter these trains at the central station because all eastbound trains end in Berlin and have only one station left (Berlin Ostbahnhof). Every ICE leaving Berlin is going in the other (westbound) direction.

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Ernst Jürgen: We Germans are experts at forgetting. We forgot we were Nazis. Now we have forgotten 40 years of Communism - all gone.

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Trivia: Throughout the movie if you look in the background at the various graffiti tags, one in particular stands out. Look for the tag OZ. In almost every scene that has graffiti on the walls you 'll see it somewhere in the background, sometimes more than once. Although it is common for graffiti artists to leave multiple marks in multiple areas, Berlin is a big city and it can be spotted too often for it to be coincidence.

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Question: Why do they simply kill dozens of people in the movie, but with him it has to be something long and drawn out, like poison in the hospital or drugs in the parking garage?

Answer: Because the killers need to make Liam Neeson's death look accidental. The police think Neeson is crazy, and is not telling the truth when he claims Liz is his wife. The police simply think that Neeson is mentally ill and so dismiss his stories and allegations as untrue. However, if Neeson is then found murdered, there is the possibility that the police think Neeson might have been telling the truth, investigate, and foil the villains' plot. Therefore, Neeson must be killed to stop him investigating - but he must he killed inauspiciously, so it looks like an accident, so as not to make the police suspicious. Thus the poison in hospital - hopefully it would be put down as a standard non suspicious hospital death. And the drugs in the car park at the end of the film are deliberately mentioned by Professor Rodney Cole as being essential in making Neeson's death look an accident. Cole says that Neeson will seem to have killed himself with heroin and so will not consider his death suspicious. So basically these elaborate ways of killing are in order to make Neeson's murder seem an accident and so not make the police investigate.

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