Music: Bay-C Stands Tall Astride the [Berlin] Wall

Recording artiste BayC recently returned from his first successful European tour since departing from the legendary group, TOK.  Embarking on his journey to greatness in his solo career, BayC has released his “Eye for an Eye” video filmed on Germany’s historic Berlin Wall.  In “Eye for an Eye,” BayC reintroduces himself to his fans as a multifaceted talent embracing the skills he learned as a dancehall artiste while showcasing his first reggae recording.   

The ‘Eye for an Eye’ video fresh off the highly anticipated ‘Better Must Come’ EP, is a lyrical and visual tour through world history as BayC traverses Germany filming on the historic Berlin Wall and the Holocaust Memorial.

“I had one foot in a piece of history, and my next foot standing in the future. ‘Eye for an Eye’ is a reminder not to allow history to repeat itself and to create a space where love dominates hate.”BayC detailed

  

The artiste also described working with Israeli director Benjamin Lidsky on the ‘Eye For An Eye,’ video project in Germany as “A nice vibe. I respect his work. He flew in from Israel to shoot it. His ancestors experienced a part of the history upon which we stood.  The lens is built to tell the truth, I couldn’t have told the story with anyone but him.  Much respect.”

Just Call Him 'Mr. Action-Suspense': 'Unknown' Trailer

We're not sure how willing or reluctant he was in the whole scheme, but with this engaging (if somewhat credulity-straining) thriller, Liam Neewson has continued his journey in the mature action-suspense territory largely vacated by Harrison Ford.

He proved with 2010's 'Taken" that he was up to the physical rigors of the genre and here again he ably shows his mettle. within an hour after arriving in the German capital of Berlin, Neeson's character has a near-death experience in a Mercedes taxicab (of which we see a lot in this movie), after it crashes into a river. The cab driver (and Neeson's rescuer) has fled the scene, leaving our hero comatose. He awakens with much of his memory gone, but the few snatches that pop up lead him ultimately back to the hotel where he and his wife (January Jones of "Mad Men" TV fame) initially went.

From this point on, the film cranks up the suspense, as the wife denies knowing him or even having met him and what's more, another man (Aidan Quinn) is claiming to be her rightful husband. With no documents to verify his identity, Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) must live by his wits as he tries to put the pieces together before the international bio-tech conference at which he was initially in the city to speak takes place.

Its heady stuff, what with the intervention of the aforementioned lady cab driver (Diane Kruger), a former East German secret police operative (Bruno Ganz) and the head of a global cell of assassins (Frank Langella), but Neeson handles it with just the right mixture of calm aplomb, stupefaction and brazen emotion. Director Jaume Collet-Serra shifts out of the psycho-horror thrillers of his recent past (House of Wax, Orphan) and moves things along briskly, but with care, allowing the characters and the narrative, not the action per se, to impress the viewer.

All in all, Unknown is an eminently watchable actioner, after Neeson's status among the action-suspense crowd will be anything but.