Thanks for the memories!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jean Jacket wakes up in a closed room where the one exit is locked by passcode. Other prisoners are present, and most seem worse for the wear. Jean Jacket pounds on the door and raises a holler or ten, but gets no attention. He takes a phone call, and takes notes, but seems not to know what it was about.Broken Nose, Bound Man, Handcuffed Man, and Rancher Shirt wake up soon there after, and the four of them try to figure out who they are and why they are together.Elsewhere, Eliza cooperates with law enforcement to get her husband back.Snakeskin Boots intercepts the hostage money and eludes the police; he calls the trapped men and tells them he will meet with them before sundown. Bound Man finds a gun, but Jean Jacket takes it away from him. They discover instructions about the toxic gas stored in canister around the rooms. It can cause temporary memory loss in small doses. Broken Nose begins to remember a bit later; he was one of the abductees. He talks to Rancher Shirt, the other abductee. Rancher Shirt tries to get the gun from Jean Jacket, but fails.Broken Nose frees Bound Man, and the anger rises and partial memories surface. Jean Jacket gives Handcuffed Man some water, but cannot get the handcuffs off.The last two kidnappers are coming with the money. Two cops are tailing them with mixed success. Erin is in despair about losing her husband. The men in the room with memory loss are cooperating to find a way out before the kidnappers come.How does this pan out? Be prepared for twists and turns as the memories surface.------Scores-------Cinematography: 8/10 No problems.Sound: 9/10 Well done.Acting: 7/10 Jim Caviezel, Bridget Moynihan, Peter Stormare, and Joe Pantoliano were excellent. On the other hand, Greg Kinnear was unconvincing as usual; with every line he speaks, I look for an indication that it's a joke or a bluff. I only believe his insincerity. Jeremy Sisto disappoints as always. Screenplay: 9/10 Kept me guessing to the end.

After familiarizing myself with the plot summary, I decided to watch the movie to find out how much the idea known from Reservoir Dogs or Saw was going to be exploited... Luckily, the actors are good (especially Greg Kinnear and Peter Stormare) and a parallel chase is depicted. However, the flashbacks are often too fast, but the scenes get sometimes too slow.The plot is still OK, tensions are there and viewers are left unknown for a long time. It is probably more interesting to watch it in the male company, as female characters are present less than 10% of the total length - which is fortunately not big (1h 15 min.). The ending is awkward, but probably it is found great by many viewers.

This is a great movie, it dose sound a little bit like SAW but it nothing like it at all.Five men wake up and can not remember who they are or how they got, their and soon find out that some of them are Kidnappers and some are Hostages and they don't who's who.Their are few disagreements with two of the men and they soon find out, how their memory were erased.There was a really good twist, which I did not see coming at all, there so another twist they i don't fully understand at the end, which i think was one twist too many.The acting was great from the whole cast and I going to give this movie 8 out of 10

Five men wake up at an abandoned warehouse, none of them remembering who he is, and all of them in a pretty dramatic situation: one is badly wounded and in cuffs, another is tied down to a chair, and they're all locked in. They soon learn that the "bad guys" are on their way there. Some of these five men are criminals and others are their victims, but they don't know who is who. However, they're all in danger, so they're going to have to cooperate in order to save their lives.That's "Unknown"'s attractive premise. It is not really original, as isn't anything about the movie, actually. However, I feel that something better could have been done out of it. There's nothing wrong with "Unknown", and in fact I enjoyed it quite a bit -but it's definitely a minor movie. I personally have no problem with movies that aren't going to stick in my memory after they end, and in fact, I often prefer movies that offer pure entertainment value over those that are trying to "make me think". However, if you fall into the latter category, you're probably going to be disappointed at this movie, because you've probably seen "Memento", "Reservoir dogs", "The usual suspects", "Saw", and others. The inspiration from all of those is in "Unknown" in some form or manner, and "Unknown" has nothing new or ground-breaking to offer.All in all, it is a very entertaining movie which probably falls short of its own potential. Enjoyable from beginning to end, though.