[Movie review] Unthinkable
Nothing KDE related, so feel free to skip this entry
Just saw Unthinkable. It’s about three nuclear bombs hidden around the US and one brave guy trying to interrogate the one who planted them to discover the locations.
The idea of the movie is to get people thinking which interrogation methods are allowed to get the suspect to talk. How much can you folter torture this guy to get the locations. Someone probably watched 24 one series too much. This issue has been triggered by them already.. Would you sacrifice a life to save a million…
The comparison with 24 can be continued while comparing the actors. Samuel Jackson vs. Kiefer Sutherland. Both are good guys, but you don’t want to be interrogated by either of them. Samuel’s acting is great, but I can’t say that from some of the other people in the movie. But Samuel compensates a lot.
And that should then be the reason to go to see the movie. The plot is close to crap and predictable. I hate predictable plots. I always try to refrain from predicting, but I keep doing it. I won’t spoil the fun (as far as there might still be some), but in hindsight, when you know the end, some of the dialogs and remarks from some people are strange to say the least.
In any case, a simple, entertaining movie, like there are a gazillion. Too bad the creators did not make more of it and have chosen to make some sections of the movie way too predictable.
folter = torture
I agree the movie wasn’t that great. It didn’t really make it clear that under no circumstances you should allow torture, even if atomic bombs are hidden in every city. Most people aren’t smart enough to understand that and a movie might have helped.
Saying that the character played Sutherland in 24 is a “good” guy is stretching the definition of good beyond meaningless.
The guys is murdered. He kills everyone and everything. In the series he killed lovers, family, friends, coworkers, bad guys, good guys, neutral guys, presidents and plebeians. The guy’s a mass murderer!
It’s also one greatest example of fascist propaganda as I ever seen, besides being formulaic, generic and mediocre TV fiction.
Every plot is predictable, every fiction work follows a formula, and therefore predictable. What makes great fiction great is the little details, how you avoid to make every step of plot as predictable as the plot itself.
Would you sacrifice a million lives to save one?
With good guys, i meant that their efforts are aimed at preventing the death of innocent people. This in contrast to people that making nuclear bombs which serves no purpose other than killing.
Yeah, the little details where problematic in this movie. Too many obvious, non surprising ones. Compare it to the Ghost Writer, where those little details you talk about are excellent.