Unthinkable (2010) R

What we got ourselves here, is a straight-to-DVD release. I'm not going to get into the reasons for that. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, A Time To Kill) is his usual mad self and he raises his voice for every single line. The things he does throughout this film are often quite hilarious, even though it's supposed to be shocking. He plays the balls-to-the-wall interrogator. He's interrogating Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Damned United) who's a Muslim/American terrorist threatening to unleash three nuclear bombs on the great U.S. of A. Sheen is the only saving grace in this film. It's a side of him we haven't quite seen before. He gets tortured in ways unimaginable and yet stays quite talkative and lively.

You know the saying good-cop, bad-cop. Well in 'Unthinkable' we get good-interrogator, bad-interrogator. The "good" one is Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento). She seemingly wants nothing to do with the whole ordeal and wants to help the terrorist but that's just her way, I guess. Gregor Jordan (The Informers) directs this yawner. The majority of the movie is spent inside a basement and in an interrogation room. It just doesn't seem to want to end. The ending is forced and you're left disuring a film with a better plot, better acting, and some actual suspense and action. I'd recommend 'Rendition' (2007) starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The fact that this film even got to DVD is unthinkable.
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