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Things We Learned from Unknown


1) Illegal immigrants are ruining Germany.

2) The best among us will take cyanide and die well.

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178) Amnesia can always be cured by head trauma, but doctors never seem interested in trying out that particular treatment technique.

179) Muscle memory that allows you to drive a car backwards like a pro is not adversely affected by amnesia, but muscle memory that allows you to fight back when death is on the line doesn't return until you get hit in the face with some concrete.

180) Killing a scientist would erase all traces of his research because there's no such thing as backups or co-workers.

181) Professional assassin agencies prefer to kill their best agents when they're involved in freak car accidents, rather than trying to recover and debrief them. Not like they invested any time or effort into their training or anything.

182) Waitress/cab-drivers know every bouncer in Berlin (well, at least that one who works the door at the club where you randomly land).

183) German(?) assassins look and behave just like Bosnian death squads when they kill your family.

184) German taxicabs can build up enough momentum to push cargo vans off the sides of buildings but that momentum conveniently dies off just in time to save said taxicab from the same fate.

185) German police don't call out to the next room for backup when the assassin story/confession of that tall, crazy American suddenly turns out to be true.

186) If you run a professional assassin agency, make sure you never watch the Bourne Identity because you might otherwise learn that amnesia doesn't necessarily also delete muscle memory, and your target might actually fight back (being your best agent and all). So, when your goon starts punching him, just turn your back and hope for the best.



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187. Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn are just as exchangeable as Nick Cage & John Travolta were in Face-Off.

188. Apparently no one in the organization thought to supply Martin with a pre-paid cell phone from Berlin.

189. Again - Liam Neeson needs to stay out of Europe. He should just tell his peeps in Ireland to visit him in another continent.

190. An assassin who has amnesia will, upon regaining memory, remember his alias occupation and not his actual occupation.


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Just read everything and I'm still laughing very hard. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

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AHAHA! This thread is HILARIOUS! I'm sorry, but I got a kick out of the big feud that was going on a couple pages back...! Ahhh...I LOVE YOU IMDB...!




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192. In Berlin, people will only believe you are husband and wife if you have photographic evidence in your wallet of you sitting in a very specific pose with a very specific background .... therefore would-be assassins need to ensure they cover all possibilities by having identical photos taken with different husbands but the same wife.

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193 - Hitler was alive and working as a private investigator.

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194 - Thanks to these movies, I have decided that if I ever wake up from coma, believing things that are easy shown false, I will quietly take my doctor prescribed medication and lay back down on the hospital bed.

195 - If a member of your team is comatose, have his "next of kin" show up and immediately move him to a private house (preferably in another country) and if he awakes, quietly explain the situation to him. Otherwise, just quickly put him "out of his misery" (it's the humane thing to do and you might enjoy dinner with your family)!

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Thanks for ruining the movie for me, guys. It was a stinker to begin with, but now there is no point watching it at all.

I think I am going to kill myself because of this, and it is all Liam Neeson's fault. Don't feel bad, just because you killed me with disapointment, Liam. It was such a bad movie, I don't want to live any more. You were better in Schindler's List.

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Who reads threads BEFORE seeing the movie?!?! Also, doesn't the topic "Things We LEARNED from Unknow" kind of clue you in that there will be a lot of spoilers?! Crazy.

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I've never seen a "Things We Learned" thread before - great stuff! A lot of you are funny, funny people!!!!

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Bosnian cab-drivers are so badass they can take out two assassins disguised as hotel staff (off camera, dammit!).

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Apparently, Mercedes cars have horrible air bags, since you can ram a van hard enough to push it through an iron guardrail and still not deploy them.

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198) If you are escaping from hospital with nothing but a hospital gown on, duck into the nearest ambulance where you will find a set of perfectly fitting clothes to change into. They are also dark so you look cool and brooding for the rest of the film.

199) In order to save your own life it is acceptable to drive like it's ok to mow any pedestrians down in your path. If they can't get out of the way in time then it's their problem. In fact, you should go out of your way to do this by mounting busy pavements at top speed, reversing at top speed down archway footpaths and careering over bustling airport taxi queue areas without the slightest consideration that, if you hit just one person, you're no longer a hero, but a certifiable lunatic that needs locking up.

200) If you've outrun and outwitted the baddies for the first time by running and hiding in a club, then befriended the girl cabbie and convinced her to let you stay in her appartment which is in the back of beyond in a very obscure, tucked away location, be careful as the baddies could still inexplicably turn up, even though there is no logical way they could have traced you there. It may be loosely hinted that they followed the other cab worker friend who dropped off the cab keys, but they actually didn't even know he existed.

201) When they do turn up and you're in the bathroom having a shower, don't worry. It takes them seconds to reach and check the bathroom, but in this time you can dry yourself, put your clothes on, climb out of the window, walk over the bathroom roof tiles and hang down the far side of the roof in the same amount of time and all without making a single sound.

202) If you've abducted an amnesia struck assassin with the intent to kill him, bundled him into a black people carrier at gunpoint and sped off to avoid being caught, best not just shoot the guy in the car on the move so the problem is solved. Instead, take him round and round to the top of a car park and park up in full view of the main entrance road and carry out some drawn out plan to kill him with drugs that takes ages to prepare.

203) While you're preparing the drugs in the car park, don't feel at all alarmed by the car with screeching tyres that entered the car park shortly after you did and that is screeching nearer and nearer at a surprisingly fast rate, until it is on the same floor, 20ft away and flying towards you.

204) If you've hatched a complex and enormously costly operation to assassinate a researcher and steal his work, don't worry about the bit of the plan that requires the researcher to turn up on a whim and get into to a billionaire's party without invitation, where the security is ridiculously tight as assassination attempts have already been made, even though the researcher is looking deshevelled, potentially suspicious and is carrying an ominous bag that no-one checks. Also don't worry about the plan needing the researcher to let you hang up his bag with the rest of the coats, even though the whole reason he has it on him is so it never leaves his person. That bit will all go fine on the night.

205) If you're designing a bespoke assassin's secret usb transmitter that can be secretly hidden in a ladies watch, to be used for an incredibly serious (and secret) life and death situation that will cost many lives, where the outcome will be worth billions and where it's prescence has to remain absolutely secret, just for a laugh build a big green flashing light into the top of it.



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206) If you are a ruthless assassin, its ok to be the good guy once you have amnesia.


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198) If you are escaping from hospital with nothing but a hospital gown on, duck into the nearest ambulance where you will find a set of perfectly fitting clothes to change into. They are also dark so you look cool and brooding for the rest of the film.

Martin was wearing his trousers and boots under his hospital gown when he escaped from the assassin. He was also carrying a white plastic bag containing the rest of his clothes, which he'd worn when he arrived in Berlin — black T-shirt, green & black checked shirt, medium grey V-necked woollen pullover and a dark blue woollen overcoat — which he then put on in the ambulance.

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207) Amnesia conveniently suppresses all memories of your real life from the past 50-60 years, and retains a meager 0.1% that correspond with a fake persona you recently adapted, which for some reason convinces you that you are this person.

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209) Top level agricultural Nobel Prize worthy research is usually carried out by one single person (not by like a lab or entire team of people), making it totally legit to kill just him to wipe out all knowledge of the research

210) Said Nobel Prize winner keeps ALL his data on ONE computer (and one computer only) that he carries with him at all times

211) There are never any field research when it comes to crops research, so there couldn't possibly be large fields of a new revolutionary crop that has the literal blue print to the research (as in seeds) regardless of any computer files being carried around

212) Top level researchers always bring their young children when their meeting a prince that is constantly bombed by terrorists, presumably since Nobel laureates are too poor to hire a nanny for one night

(+ Everyone supposedly forgot that Norman Bourlag already received a Nobel Prize for doing basically what the researcher did in this movie (the Green Revolution))

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213. Multiple cars can drive at high speeds, in reverse, on sidewalks and in pedestrian areas through a busy European capital without ever hitting one single person.

214. Illegal immigrants working as waitresses/cabbies are always smoking hot.

215. Smoking hot waitresses/cabbies/illegals won't talk to cops, but will invite strangers up to their apartments.

216. When trying to avoid assassins in a busy art gallery, always walk directly behind them. They can't see you there.

217. Members of despised former secret police units always immediately show their secret police photos and info to complete strangers.

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There are cameras inside the hotel but not outside at the entrance.

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