Unthinkable (2010)

That was an excellent one.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

3/30/18. Surprisingly good, but with some reservations. If you don't like interrogations, tortures and other strong-armed methods to elicit information, and if terrorism upsets you, then this is not one to watch. Sheen is a terrorist who plants 3 nuclear bombs and Jackson and Moss are tasked to find out where these bombs can be found so they can be defused. Jackson sums up the plot succinctly, "I shake him up, you shake him down." This movie shows how different techniques are used to get someone to talk. If there is one thing this movie will do is to get you to talk about what went on in the movie, and that makes this worth seeing even though some scenes are extremely harsh and distasteful.

Straight forward film that went nowhere with no twists or turns and no clever plot twists, very predictable movie with a swift ending, I'm thinking it was probably written during the writers strike period of shooting movies in the US, and I really dontt Honk any of it was unthinkable, save millions of lives by torturing a couple 1 of which was admitting to being the terrorist?

This movie is really awful. Can Samuel L Jackson stop playing the same character in every bloody movie he is in, please? "Oh look at me guys, I am going to make a joke and eat burgers with my wife while there is a ticking nuclear bomb somewhere. Three of them." This might work in a slick Tarantino-ish flick, but this movie isn't one of them. All the characters are completely one-dimensional. Most of them have no clue what they are doing on the screen besides keeping a grim countenance. The FBI. The CIA. A bunch of fcuking clowns. I thought Carrie Ann Moss would show some shades, but nopes. There is some random factoid thrown in that she never had a boyfriend and then she sleepwalks through the movie with a stone face. Michael Sheen was good as the terrorist and frankly deserved to be in a better plot than this joke of a thriller. The movie drags on till the "unthinkable" moment and voila! It's barely unthinkable. If you've seen a Bollywood movie in your life, that's the thought you have from scene 1! And then there is all that gore pretending to make you believe that Samuel J is a man with a plan. Oh trust me, he is as clueless as everyone else. The role of a decent movie is to make you believe that what you see on that screen is actually happening in some imaginary world and has a plausible flow of events. This movie just makes you want to shake your head and go to bed.

{ SPOILER ALERT }So here's my review title: Like a very, very long joke with no punchline.The acting was terrific, the script was involving (VERY involving), the pacing was very tense.And then plop, it's over, without the largest question resolved.Now I'm sure deep people will rate it high because the point is to question our humanity and yadda yadda. But I don't go to movies for deep thoughts, as a rule. The movie put a big tense issue out there: bombs. Nuclear bombs.And it ends with complete irresolution.So maybe that was the point of the movie. Okay, then, mission accomplished. My review reflects MY feelings about the movie. And I felt like I sat through a very very long joke, with a terrific setup, where I really expected to laugh...and then the teller said, "Wellnow, would you look at the time? Gotta go." No punchline. And all my time sitting there, gone.One man's opinion. If you don't care, go for it. Up to that point, it's riveting.