Unthinkable
2010 Directed by Gregor Jordan
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Right and Wrong no longer exist
A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.
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Well, this is pretty much what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Go figure.
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Samuel L Jackson: "NOW TELL ME MOTHERF**KING NIGEL CLOUGH!. TELL ME WHERE ARE THE GOD DAMN MOTHERF**KING BOMBS?"
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Man builds bombs, man hides bombs, other man removes first man's fingers and inserts sharp objects and voltage into him to find out where bombs are. Carrie Ann Moss watches. Hilarity does definitely NOT ensue, but as thrillers go this is a decent film if you're not too faint-hearted.
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Samuel L Jackson is the movie, and he really makes it pop. Love the psychology, the simple story, and the raw mystery that questions the whole western civilization.
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Si no te gusta la sangre, no la veas. Es fueeeerte, pero total es una película y la disfrute full. Amenazan, cortan, rompen, pegan y, en fin, torturan.
Una trama excelente con Samuel L. Jackson. Dos horas de impotencia que valen la pena. -
I was reminded of a moment in Lawrence of Arabia while watching Unthinkable where Peter O'Toole is cornered into executing a man he had rescued in the desert and later informs a superior officer with trembling fear that he had enjoyed it. Unthinkable triggered the same terror in me that O'Toole felt while trying to determine whether the egregious behaviour of Samuel L. Jackson was necessary. What starts as a conventional thriller quickly descends into a brutal onslaught of straight up Spanish Inquisition torture that asks how far should people go in preventing a terrorist attack?
The question is, of course, already answered in real life - we would pre-emptively attack nations that harbour terrorists causing misery for entire populations…
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Took a leap of faith to watch this one, I try to avoid Samuel L Jackson considering how much crap he does now. But this movie stands on it's own, in a way it feels more like a play, it's almost a single set play, most of the movie happens in one room and the moral question presented feel like actual questions not just for the characters but for the audience. There's a couple really silly scenes early on, but once we get to the core of it, it's great.
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It's an age-old philosophical question. If you had, in custody, a man who knew the location of nuclear weapons in a major city, and you knew those weapons were timed to explode such that you wouldn't be able to simply find them, would it be ok to torture them?
Some will answer that, of course, in that situation, you've nothing to lose and everything to gain. That such a person gave up his rights the second he got involved in a bomb plot. That torture has been used, successfully, throughout the ages for much less.
Others will tell you that it's not ok, under any circumstances. That it's a false dichotomy to say that you have to choose between the…
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Unthinkable was recommended to me by a friend a little while ago, and I've seen it a couple of times before deciding to pick it up from HMV on Blu-ray as part of their 5 for £30 offer. This film was quietly released with minimal fanfare, which is surprising considering the cast consists of Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Michael Sheen. Frankly the best way to experience the story is to watch it with minimal prior knowledge, so I'll shut up now and let you discover this film for yourself.
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Well, this is pretty much what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Go figure.
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Exciting, nail-biting thriller, Samuel L. Jackson never fails.
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very strong movie
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Speechless.. Samuel L Jackson gets under my skin whit his interpretation of the character "H". This film make us stop to think what lies within us. Does we all have the capability to torture if the right buttons are pressed? I think so..
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Moraalinen ja ajatuksia herättävä jännäri-trilleri terrorismin vastaisesta sodasta. Samuel L. Jackson esittää pari himmeetä tuijotusta.
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Si no te gusta la sangre, no la veas. Es fueeeerte, pero total es una película y la disfrute full. Amenazan, cortan, rompen, pegan y, en fin, torturan.
Una trama excelente con Samuel L. Jackson. Dos horas de impotencia que valen la pena.