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2012-05-25 00:36:39

Typical Hollywood

This film is supposed to make you think about the choice of torture andmurder if that action could save millions of lives.It tries to portray "both" sides of the argument.In reality, the presupposition that the lesser of the two evils isbeing scoped is actually false.This type of torture is ongoing - not because we need to "save amillion lives" but rather to keep the powerful, powerful.The public needs these reasons to allow exceptions in law or to turn ablind eye in "such cases". But its just another public conditioninggame.To sacrifice 1 person to save a million is a no-brainer.But to torture for sadistic fun, to rape children and torture them tolet the parents hear them scream for sadistic fun - this is really whatgoes on every day by the forces of those in power against those who area threat to their power.Think Pharaoh and the slaughter of newly born boys. Nothing has changedin that respect.The good teachings found in Christianity and Islam go out the windowwhen it comes to maintaining power for the corrupt.Unfortunately, this movie will sway many to think that this form oftorture may be necessary to get results.That was the aim.Smokescreen.

2012-05-24 00:56:55

THOUGHT PROVOKING, UNLIKE MOST HOLLYWOOD PICTURES

Squeamish types may be turned off by the excessive violence in this picture. It centers around a terrorist negotiator, Samuel Jackson, brought in to break a Muslim terrorist who knows the location of nukes placed in the USA. He's countered by a righteous FBI agent, played by Carrie-Anne Moss, who balks at the extreme torture methods. The clock is ticking so it creates a nice pressure cooker feel but the moral questions are the true focus of this picture. Are we willing to destroy our ideals for self preservation? Does the end justify the means? Do we not torture the terrorist, let the bomb off and let millions upon millions of people die? The villain, played by Mike Sheen, does a good job portraying the Muslim perspective of how Americans have trounced on his country. The extended version ending is better than the original. CHARACTER/DIALOGUE: B to B plus; STORY/PLOTTING: B plus; QUESTIONS: B plus to A minus; MY GRADE: B plus; WHEN WATCHED: yesterday.

2012-05-23 22:08:51

Awful - like 24 but with a better cast and worse acting

This was a terrible movie.Okay, to be fair, I don't like 24 and other cheesy detective/FBI/intelligence "thrillers". I like the good ones, but I can't stand the sort of made-for-TV, fake, overly dramatized ones with extraordinarily cliche lines. This movie is filled with good ol' cliche lines like:- "What IS this place?" when walking into an unknown building. You know the fake exclamation.- "But can I ask what this is reference to?" "That's classified by DIA."- "Who classified this?" Answer: "Military intelligence" in a very important voice. Response: "That's an oxymoron." Hasn't that been in like 20 movies?- Not a line, but the 3 bombs all have huge LED screens that clearly display "Hours, Minutes, Seconds", and then the guy watching the video says in a highly fake annoying voice: "Geee that's only 3 days from now!" And the "nuclear" cannister with the Russian printed all over it, turned perfectly to the camera - like one of those coke can placements on movies.- Then there's the ridiculous scene with the washed-up looking 2 star general who says, "He was one of us... ... Delta Force." lol how cliche can you be? How come Rambo wasn't in this movie?I can go on, as that was what I remember from the first 15 minutes alone, but you get the point.Anyway, if you like 24 a LOT - I mean, so much that you can't live without it - then watch this movie. If you only sort of liked 24, or if you like other spy/thriller/detective movies that are actually good, don't go near it.

2012-05-23 11:07:15

Just more Jack Bauer crap

I recently retired from the US military due to injuries suffered in Iraq. I was an interrogator. Several US interrogators visited the set of "24" to beg the show to stop doing what it was doing, which was making a mockery of the reality of interrogation. This movie is pretty much more of the same. 1. The ticking time bomb scenario. Terrorist organizations are not organized in any way that makes this possible. It does, however, justify any number of macho jerkwad fantasies about revenge, gettin' them Mooslims, being a macho guy, delivering a beating to them terrorists, etc., etc, 2. With the ticking time bomb scenario off the table, the rest of the movie becomes preposterous. Torture doesn't work. It will make the guy talk----Oh, yeah, he'll talk. But he'll say anything to get you to stop. And here's the thing that gets me: if the guy's innocent, you might have just CREATED a terrorist. I guarantee you his family or his tribe will not view it kindly. I hate it that these days one cannot simply argue that it's wrong, and have that be the end of it. Torture is wrong. Period. The end. 3. There is no mastermind terrorist with a cunning plan and unlimited amounts of material. Unlike in Iraq, where Rumsfeld's disbanding of the Iraqi Army left munitions dumps wide open for looting, the US features whatever safeguards we can on gun buying that the NRA hasn't managed to destroy. Gun shows have proven to have about as much security, for example, as any Saturday parking lot flea market. You know what works? "Hey, dude, want a cup of coffee?" Gummy bears are also good. (You can get halal ones.) You look them in the eye, ask them how they've been treated, and then you do what you say. It takes time, but it works, because here's the thing: people want to talk about what they've done. They want to brag to their opponents, and maybe it weighs on their soul. Lying is hard. Telling the truth is what people naturally do. When you sit across a desk from a terrorist or an insurgent or whatever you want to call it, you're confronted with a human being, and Michael Sheen does an excellent job here of portraying this aspect of the reality. In fact, the only reason I didn't give it the one star it deserves is for the excellent cast. The plot, the ideas, are sheer suckitude. Interrogators have committed suicide when ordered to commit torture. Innocent people have been confined at Gitmo for years. The reality is, it takes time and it takes standards. This movie tries to justify it by making Sheen's character a screwed up fanatic with a clever out, but this is the kind of thinking that serves to justify intrusions on American liberty like the ever-ratcheting up of TSA actions that provide no security whatsoever. They're always chasing horses that have already left the barn. The performances are far better than this crap deserves. Carrie Anne Moss plays the good cop (what, because she's a woman?), Samuel L. Jackson is the mysterious figure who travels around torturing people---like there aren't a ton of these people willing to do it after a few beers----and Michael Sheen plays the convert. Then of course, there's my favorite: the way the military members are portrayed: officious, non-thinking, apt to run into a situation without any tactical awareness, and finally, so stupid as to go, "What's this?" and then----Yeah. No. The movie's message is muddled. One the one hand, there's the fact that the scenario is standard Jack Bauer crap. On the other, there's the contempt for the military, which seems to spring from a different viewpoint. With the ending.....Yeah, that ending. It's almost worse than they didn't go for the CFI effects. By that point, why not? It's not like the movie has ducked any other cliches.

ADIL MEHMOOD 2012-05-21 01:50:01

the boiling point

*spoilers* While many didn't and few did get the idea of this movie(torture limits), there is a very strong question asked from theAmericans in it.A previous American Army man, highly trained, who fought for hiscountry, and spend years and years in the battlefield , just for thename of United States, why would he become a person , like he become?What made him to change, every living bit of his existence and stand upagainst what he thought is wrong? What in particular, did he see in theworld, that he, A LOYAL American , came to a limit of destroying hisown country and every living being in it with nothing less than thenuclear bombs? The movie is only for strong viewers who can withstandany limit of graphic content. and the idea behind the movie is how farwould you go for your people and country. that was easy pickings. butthats not my point.I love the United States as a country and the people in it. I have beento United States and i have never found a much friendlier group ofpeople than them, i mean it. But the problem is they refuse to gobeyond a certain point of thought. they stop, where their media makesthem stop.Just ask yourselves, why and American army soldier did all that? Whatmade him? What did he see? and above all, would any1 of you do the sameagainst your current government? Would any1 of you stand against thethe actual terrorism in the world? never!!! Do you really think theseIslamic FUNDAMENTALIST just came into existence..just like that...??Younger portrays in this movie, that their is a certain point, towhich, a human can withstand anything. Beyond that point, you becomesomething you never thought you would be. When one watches her sisterbeing rapped, and dad being killed by a group of 5 to 6 white soldiersin front of his very own eyes, that is the limit. In "UNTHINKABLE",that limit made an animal, in the "REAL WORLD", it makes a suicidebomber...Who is to be blamed?? decide for yourself..i give a movie 9.... worth the time

Thomas 2012-05-20 13:50:38

Drivel

To say that the script for this film (and I use that term loosely) is sophomoric would be an insult to sophomores. I agree with one contributor here about watching movies to be entertained as opposed to being lectured on someone's political viewpoint. But at the end of this made-for-TV style steamer I was left scratching my head and wondering, "what was the point?" In retrospect, it is appropriately named though.

d-lewis476 2012-05-20 10:26:50

Propaganda. Propaganda. Propaganda.

I could just imagine seeing the usual trash threat that precedesmovies... I should let some federal authority know if this is anillegal copy and I will face some serious penalty or another blah blahblah. Nobody should pay to see this. I have to purchase legal copies ofgovernment propaganda just for the privilege. ....I would be moreconcerned about the morality of just watching this BS. Taking the mostextreme hypothetical situation is the kind of justification given to usby every barbaric culture that wishes to excuse its atrocities. Such anA-list of actors too. Nice to see where they all stand. Artists are notwhat they used to be eh?

iniestaone 2012-05-19 18:30:56

Carrie wasn't THAT real, was she?

Spoilers incomingI liked the movie a lot, but Carrie Ann-Moss wasn't that realistic. The fact that she slowly begins to realize that torture is needed tomake that terrorist talk is good. It's excellent, I love it when filmsdon't have that Hollywood touch where it's about being as emotional andsensitive as possible.But her character doesn't fill that bottle in which reality was pouredas the film progressed.By the end, the realistic thing for her to say would be "hey, cut hiskids apart in front of him until he gives us what we need" because heobviously wasn't lying since the first bomb blew up.That's what I didn't like, and the fact that there still were somepeople who said "enough is enough!". What..?! Come on.. as far as Iknow, there could've been a bomb very close to the building they werein, and the kids could've died anyway.Apart from that Westernish way of thinking, I loved the film. Samueland the terrorist outshines everyone else.

2012-05-19 11:17:50

A waste of my American money!

This review is from: Unthinkable (Amazon Instant Video) Great actors, lousy theme and direction, with little or no creativity or logic...tasteless according to entertainment.Terrible end...was there even an end????Pinkie

ThatDoesntMatter 2012-05-18 22:57:07

Fearmongering

The first 60 minutes were intriguing.Although the bad guy showing fear was a bit stupid - he was fearless,why should he act afraid when his plan was set from the start.Interesting questions were raised, although, it must be said, in ablack and white manner. The best part was H. saying "Militaryintelligence - the great oxymoron" - that one had me laughing veryhard!!!:-)I was thinking along the lines: Is it a hoax to prove a point? Is H. inon it? I hoped the guy would not crack because I don't think torturewill make everybody talk and tell. Which this film proves in a way, butin a bad way.Then the film turned stupid.As if to prove H.'s point, the major just rips off the photo -hahahahaha. HE killed those people, clearly. Shortly before that theFBI people were walking through an uncleared building unprotected -gimme a break, I will give the military that much - they would not letthat happen. Stupid.The 'unthinkable' was not unthinkable at all to my point of view, juststupid. As if the baddie hadn't somehow made sure his wife and kidswere safely away - stupid. When the torturer just killed the wife - Ihad stopped caring before that anyway.Suddenly we're human beings - lol. Much too highly dramatised, I reallyhope this would be handled more professionally in real life.I wanted to give this no points for the non-points it makes. But I haveto give one star minimum...then I added one cause Michael Sheen shines,and so does Samuel Jackson in the first half.This film is not helpful at all. Terrorists will strike if they wantto. Jeez, don't kid yourselves, like the wonderful US of A and theirdirty workers could prevent that - they can't, which is demonstrated bythe ending, which makes the whole effin film redundant and pointless.Very disappointing.

qt-926-851767 2012-05-17 11:56:15

Must see ..!

wow what a movie !! i haven't seen anything like this in along time ..we can't say that it is an awful movie like what some of u said in yourreviews .. that so unfair .. u totally missing it ! the point is thatUSA is middling in the middle east politics & it should just stop ..they are saying that the Muslims are terrorists & barbarians .. whatabout them .. what r they doing in Iraq .. is that justified ?!! MaybeI'm taking that way too far ..! maybe ! i usually hate the politicsstuff but this movie made me think of so many things & most of them arejust true !It's a great movie & i enjoyed it so much .

Chaz_233 2012-05-16 15:56:09

What a great movie this could have been

An American turned Muslim turned terrorist releases a video announcinghe has several nuclear bombs in different US cities and is willing tomake them explode unless his demands are met.That of course causes the entire US security apparatus to go on fullalert, including the FBI. We are guided trough all this via a femaleFBI agent in charge of terrorism played by Carrie-Ann Moss. She andsome of her agents are moved to a secret location for a secret project.It tuns out that the terrorist has been apprehended and is being heldat the facility. The military is in charge of the facility instead ofsome other governmental department. Moss's character is there to assistin the interrogation and direct operations once information isobtained. In charge of interrogation is a man named H, played by SamuelJackson. He is the kind of person who is willing to do whatever ittakes to get information. Struggles ensue between all these partiesinvolved. H is specialized in torture, the FBI can't be part ofanything illegal, and the military is somewhere in between. But a shadypolitical figure gives the go ahead to obtain info by all meansnecessary.Despite all efforts, the terrorist doesn't break. Eventually due to theFBI's more humane methods, he volunteers some info and announces that"something will happen tomorrow". Meanwhile the FBI has found one ofthe locations that appear in the video. When they rush there theywonder what will happen...and indeed something happens.The agents return to the facility, and everyone comes to therealization that this terrorist is something special, it looks like hehas been leading them by the nose all along. Up to that point the movieis fantastic. Very exciting and interesting. But after that things godownhill. H ups the ante, the next level in interrogation, and at thatpoint the movie turns into a verbal conflict movie, a dreadful type ofmovie that appears in many genres. It involves several people, many ofthem strong willed, all confined in a room and who spend their timeshouting at each other. And Unthinkable never manages to recover fromthere and it ends on the unavoidable, ridiculous and silly note.The idea and first 3/4 of this movie are brilliant really. Tremendoussuspense and excitement is built. It is very reminiscent of Se7en,where the villain, too, announces something great about to happen, andthe audience is at the edge of the seat waiting for this event andwondering what it could be. Had this movie continued in that vein,turned more into action psychological thriller, it would have been a10/10. Carie-Ann Moss gives a magnificent performance. I had not ideashe was that great. She deserves more work.Unfortunately this movie has several problems. The most egregious isSamuel Jackson's performance, that resembles Keenen Ivory Wayansplaying Samuel Jackson on a skit in In Living Color. Jackson has becomea caricature of himself, from the first minute he appears the qualityof the movie drops significantly, he is always setting the wrong tone,never sure if he's supposed to be a comedian, or a tough guy, or aserious thinker. The fault is shared here by the director who in thecommentary says that he left the actors do whatever they want to do. Aterrible mistake, Jackson needs direction. The terrorist is alsomiscast. He is supposed to be Delta Force and yet the actor playing himis all skin and bones. The military guy in charge of the facility ismiscast, his costume is too big for him and he's not convincing in hisrole.What this movie needed was quick revision of the script to give it morefocus, preferably by David Mamet, who would have also done a muchbetter job directing. Or had this movie been done by the crew of 24(Cassar, Cochran, Surnow) or even the folks behind the Bourne films, itwould have been spectacular. I'm not saying the movie's message wouldhave to be diluted, not at all. But the movie fails at its main goal-to get the viewers to think about torture, to get them to question USactions abroad. This has been done better by other movies, likeTraitor. Everything "controversial" that happens and is said, comes asno surprise but rather is completely expected and reflects a lack ofrealism. H is a confused character, a proficient torturer yet athinker, and he even gets the best and most biting line in the moviethat questions America. In reality that wouldn't happen. It would havehelped the crew to see the excellent movie Spartan to learn how seriousUS black-ops operatives work. They don't question, they act, they arenot politicians, they are doers.Still, I'm very fond of Unthinkable despite the fact that I'm franklyupset at how an opportunity to make an outstanding movie was missed. Itmade me think, not about what it wants me to think, but about how tomake a better Unthinkable. This script was an excellent opportunity tocreate a nail-biting, intelligent psychological action thriller aboutterrorism, that gets you to question your political assumptions, andeverything the media says. Unfortunately it fails on both counts- atbeing thrilling, and at making you think about the content.This movie/script begs for a remake in the hands of a more competentdirector, better actors, and a larger budget.

codefool 2012-05-15 18:39:14

Illustrates reality very well

*** No, really - this contains major spoilers ***Unlike most of the reviews here, this movie screams one vital truth: Terrorists Are Cowards.That is, so long as they're killing someone else'sfather/mother/sibling/children they can be all proud and determined,but once that same hate/terror/violence is turned toward their own -they become not unlike the people they terrorize.The terrorist in this movie has planted three nuclear bombs set to gooff in two days. He knows he's going to be tortured but he also knowsthat all he has to do is hold out until the bombs go off. In themeantime - to show he's for real - he blows up a shopping mall. So theybring in the mysterious Mr. H who interrogates him by invasive torture.A moral hazard debate ensues about the terrorist's rights vs. theticking clock and the thousands of lives hanging in the balance.After inflicting several horrible tortures on the terrorist, they bringin his family - a wife and two young children - who he believed wereable to escape his nuclear Armageddon.It's not until Mr. H turns on the children - the unthinkable act - thatthe terrorist screams - screams mind you - all the information theywant to know.How many children did he kill anonymously in the shopping mall? He'sindifferent to the death of infidels. But when his own children are onthe block, suddenly his "cause" is not important any more.The true nature of the beast is revealed.Worth watching at least once.

2012-05-15 10:58:08

Not my cup of tea...

A terrorist manufactures and hides three nuclear bombs throughout the US, then allows himself to be captured. He gives the date and time for the bombs to go off, but no more. A mysterious interrogator known as "H" (Samuel Jackson) is brought in to find the locations of the bombs. An FBI counter-terrorism specialist (Carrie-Anne Moss) is a witness to the interrogation.The orders from on high regarding the interrogation? No holds barred. Find the bombs.Along with the screaming, the soul-searching, the missing fingers, the free dental work, and more, there is repeated reference to whether information obtained during torture has any validity. H doesn't care... he just ratchets things up as the terrorist (an ex-military US citizen) holds out.Is there anything H won't do? As the time gets closer to the deadline, is there anything people don't want him to do? And are there things he won't do unless ordered?Don't expect to feel good at the end of this film.

DJ Damage215 2012-05-12 12:40:19

Sleep Hit

I remember seeing ads for this film online but I don't think it ever made it to theaters. If that's the case I for one can't figure out WHY? Samuel L. Jackson as the cold calculating interrogation agent and especially Michael Sheen as the Islamic extremist both give great performances. Some folks might just dismiss this film because if the whole Islamic extremist/terrorist angle but the movie actually has a deeper level than just that basic premise. I'd say definitely give it a watch.

2012-05-12 01:19:01

Really Unthinkable

Unfortunately, in this world such things as this movie portrays are possible, The cast convincingly educates us on what lengths we must go to if we are to protect our loved ones and what moral bounds we may break through to do the right thing. It will be your conflict and your moral dilemna to choose that one right thing. Great movie.

robobox 2012-05-11 01:45:37

The clock is ticking, but he's not talking.

Samuel L Jackson deftly mixes charm and chill as a family man who's jobrequires he does whatever is necessary, when necessary.It becomes necessary when it's discovered that somewhere in the USthere are three nuclear bombs. It's Jackson's mission to extract theirlocation from the captured Muslim bomb-maker (Michael Sheen) beforethey detonate.While this may sound rather '24', the focus of 'Unthinkable' is on thepsychological rather than the pyrotechnic and poses the post GuantanamoBay question: How far can a civilised society go to protect itself? FBIAgent Carrie Anne Moss initially has no doubts about the answer to thatquestion, and is appalled by Jackson's methods against an Americancitizen. However her beliefs (and those of the audience) are challengedas time begins to run out and the terrorist shows no sign of cracking."We're afraid, they're not. We have doubt, they believe." ObservesJackson, while pointing out that Sheen, although at the mercy of hiscaptors, retains overall control of the situation. And Sheen, as adetermined man resigned to his fate does well to evoke, if not quitesympathy, empathy."Unthinkable" is essentially a Morality Play that paints with a broadbrush, yet works well as a taut Ticking Clock thriller.

V J 2012-05-10 19:46:50

OK but not brilliant

UNTHINKABLE (2010) is a psychological thriller about a US citizen,Steven Younger (Michael Sheen) who has converted to the Islamic faithand sends a video to the government in which he says he has set threenuclear bombs in various places across the USA. Henry Harold Humphries,aka 'H' (Samuel L Jackson) is brought in to interrogate Younger andascertain the locations of the bombs. But getting the information fromYounger by fair means and foul isn't easy, things don't go according toplan, and time is running out.Samuel L. Jackson plays this kind of role so well and he excels inthis, as does Martin Sheen which is more than I can say for the rest ofthe cast. The plot doesn't just focus on the threat of nuclear bombsbut on Human Rights and on the methods used to extract information.Personally, I just kept thinking of how many thousands would die ifnuclear bombs went off. That's unthinkable.

bas rutten 2012-05-06 21:38:21

Interesting ideas deserve much better movie

How far is one allowed to when millions of lives are at stake? Shouldone subscribe to the "anything goes" school of thought, or should onetake the moral high ground no matter what? Valid questions that"Unthinkable" touches upon, and even tries to answer, but in the end itdoesn't do so in a very intelligent way.A movie about serious issues like this can definitely work, but it doesneed a lot more credibility than what is displayed here. For one, itwould help if the lead interrogator (Samuel L Jackson in a typicalbad-ass role) wouldn't be a totally insane, arrogant know-it-all type.He constantly does the most crazy things without any kind ofdeliberation, he is clearly emotional unstable, and he withholds vitalinformation for the rest of the team. And somehow we are supposed tobelieve this man is our last best hope against terrorists? No thankyou.There are numerous other problems as well, e.g if the terrorist onlywanted to buy time instead of making a statement, why allow himself toget captured? And why not make sure the wife and kids are well out ofthe country? And why tell the feds exactly how much uranium is in everybomb so they can figure out there is a fourth bomb? The list goes onand on.There is also a very strong "been there, done that" feeling to thismovie for everybody who has ever watched the series "24". In thatseries, the protagonist Jack Bauer also constantly has to do theunthinkable. The difference is that in "24", most of the stuff Bauerdoes actually makes sense given the context, whereas "Unthinkable"feels very doctored just to get a point across.It's a shame really, the cast for this movie is very fine and some ofthe acting is pretty good. But in the end it just another suspensethriller disguised as something meaningful that fails because of therather weak plot and the fact that it's just not very suspenseful.

sol 2012-05-06 13:13:48

You've proved exactly the kind of people we are that we say we aren't!

(Some Spoilers) The film "Unthinkable" shows the lengths that the USwould go in breaking down a suspected terrorist in getting vitalinformation from him in order to prevent a nuclear Holocaust fromwiping out a number of major US cities.Former US Army demolition specialist Steven Arthur Younger, MichaelSheen, has become disenchanted with his country in it's polices in Iraq& Afghanstan as well as it's occupation of other Islamic nations.Having recently converted to Islam Younger has decided to put his veryviolent anti-US Government opinions into action by assembling threenuclear weapons with high or military grade uranium that he somehowsmuggled out of the former Soviet Union. Younger had planted thenuclear devices in three major US cities that would detonate unless theUS changes its policies in regard to Islamic countries in the Middleand Near East.After tipping off the local police where he'd be Younger porously letshimself get captured in a shopping mall where he knows that he and hisfamily his wife and two young children will be tortured by the USmilitary and CIA until he tells them were he hid the weapons and whentheir set to go off. With nothing that the CIA interrogators can do toget Younger to talk they bring in their top military interrogator, ortorturer, Henry Herald Humphries or just plain Mr. H., Samuel L,Jackson, to get the job done in his own unique way that worked everytime for him. The job that at first seemed to be a piece of cake forhim turned out to be the most difficult task for Mr. H in that Youngerwas ready to take everything he could throw at him! Even the tortureand murder of his own wife and children who are totally innocent inanything that Younger did or planned to do in the future!There's also Mr. H's counterpart in the FBI Agent Helen Brady,Carrie-Anne Moss, who tries to get Mr. H to hold off on his sadisticand brutal torture methods and just try to use kinder ways to getYounger to tell her where the bombs are hidden. This soon backfires onAgent Brady when Younger gets her, or one of her fellow law enforcementpersonnel, to accidentally set off a bomb that Younger planted thatends up blowing up a L.A shopping mall killing 53 men women andchildren in it. Now feeling that her good will towards Younger had beenbetrayed by him Agent Brady gets almost as determined in getting him totalk as Mr. H does. That's until after Mr. H slashed Youngers wife'sJehan, Necar Zasegab, throat during an interrogation session he alsoplans to do the same thing to his surviving children Ali & Samura, CobySeyrafi & Villain Bruno. It's then that Agent Brady begins to realizejust how far Younger is willing to go to get his point across. In notonly letting himself get tortured to death but his close family memberas well! Something that's unthinkable to her or any normal human beingbut is the highest form of patriotic and religious duty for Younger! It's not that the film tries to excuse what Younger is planning to doin blowing up three major US cities and killing millions of innocentpeople it in fact puts the US and it's torture methods towardssuspected terrorists and their families in an even worse light! Eventhough the body count of Innocent civilians is thousands to one interrorists like Younger's favor!***SPOILERS*** AS hard as Mr. H tries he can't break Younger's will intelling him where he planted the bombs. It's when as a last resortagainst Agent Brady's strong objections that it's decided to use thesame torture methods on Younger's two children that was used on him!This barbaric decision by Mr. H's boss the head of the enhancedinterrogation team causes a mutiny to break out in the torture orinterrogation chamber. ***MAJOR SPOILER*** In the all confusion it'sYounger who takes the initiative and ends up doing the job that Mr. Hand his superiors failed to do! But he does it before they can getanything out of him!Increibably brutal and shocking movie that shows just how far a countrywill go to get information from interned terrorist in preventing afuture terrorist attack. In this case it was the terrorist StevenYounger himself who set himself up to be both captured and tortured byhis US Military and CIA captors in order for him to prove his point.Mr. H and his fellow interrogator's actions in fact didn't preventYounger from doing what he planned to do in causing psychical damage tothe US. It only strengthened his fanatical determination to carry hisplan through. But even more disturbing Younger in the end exposed thosewho tortured him, and his wife and children, as being just as inhumanin what they did to him and his family, as well as fellow Moslem's, aswhat he posthumously was soon to do to them!P.S The film "Unthinkable" ends on a confusing note in that your notshown if Younger's diabolical plan ever was carried out or not. If youhit on the director's, Gregor Jordan, commentary on the DVD disk you'llget to see the shocking last two minutes of the movie that wasconsidered, by the movie makers and sneak preview audiences, far toodisturbing for the faint hearted American movie goers to watch!