I wanted to but couldn't!

Good concept, poorly executed.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This movie will have people screaming at the screen: Many will scream to the right of it and the rest will scream to the left. There is no middle ground on the subject. The fact that some enemies have no moral compass makes it difficult to justify our own. Watching, hearing and feeling this film is still no representation of the real battles taking place in the world. Evil exists. How would you deal with it? It the conflict hits your home how far are you willing to go to repel it?

I didn't expect to like this because I am usually too distracted by the current reality of knowing the political beliefs of many of the actors in the current crop of films. It is sad and unfortunate.I recently watched A Good American, a documentary about intelligence gathering in the years leading up to 9/11. There are your facts, there is your evidence about what we are facing and how political types endanger the rest of us. I recommend that movie to those who believe the writing or acting or directing is so sub-par as to make this movie unwatchable. This would have been a 'better' movie if the actual people in A Good American had connected the dots and 9/11 was prevented by a scenario like this. Unfortunately people who pan the morality of the writer are pretty much the kinds of political leaders we had calling the shots back then. With some of the current world leaders in possession these materials and with the advance of technology to make this scenario more plausible, the plot holes seem less distracting and we are left simply with the decision: Do we believe fanatics who are in possession of enormously deadly weapons and are threatening innocent lives have any expectation to be spared the horror they create.Excellent movie with great performances and great pacing.

The movie got some suspense but tbh I was not convinced about the moral dilemma of torturing or not torturing. In the scenario, we get the danger of some nukes (!) going off in some major US cities if the answer of their whereabouts is not revealed. That's ten of thousands if not hundreds of thousands dead and seriously injured civilians. A man who plays that "game" has lost (imo) all human rights - and if necessary of course the responsible people (be it CIA or military or whoever) for interrogating would take all necessary means to get that information - even torturing or "interrogating" the family of the fanatic.Just an example - if you break down the "moral dilemma" of Unthinkable (what means are justified and what not etc.) it would mean in the Cold War, if the Russians lets say, would have nuked some Western cities you won't shot back because the Russian civilians are innocent etc. And the Cold War worked, without the nuclear threat I bet the 3rd World War would already be part of the history books.But anyway, I like the movie because it got a lot of suspense, what I don't like is this "humanity bullshitting" - the only reasonable man was Mr. H., the rest of the crew just were undermining his work - you want to save 2 kids but are ready to let kill those fanatic thousands of kids!? How hypocritical is that!? As a thriller and drama, the movie works well, but the "important" message some reviewers mention is imo hypocritical as most of the characters involved are - they don't act like pros but like some middle-aged female human- right activists with nothing better to do and the only danger in life they ever met was maybe to get their Cholesterol level to high ;) For that reason, most of those characters in the movie seemed not unthinkable but unbelievable for me (e.g. the character played by Moss). I am certain that people involved in such an operation would be handpicked and ready to get the job done, no matter what.

There are 3 nuclear bombs set to go off in a matter of couple of days. The mastermind has allowed himself to be captured by the federal government for reasons unknown. He's not saying where the bombs are and Carrie-anne's character wants to chat the guy up like he's a facebook pal. Samuel L wants to do whatever is necessary to get him to talk as they only have a few days before millions of people die. Obviously, Sammie will do ANYTHING and Carrie has a problem with it but Samuel has been granted power to do whatever. What follows is Carrie futile attempts to break the guy through the power of conversation with Samuel L trying to prove that torture is the way to go. In my opinion, Samuel wasn't "tough" enough. There are 50 other parts of the body he could stab, smash, cut which would have caused this guy to either a) talk immediately or b) faint which I then wake his tail back up. Good movie and worth a watch.