MOVIE: UNTHINKABLE (2010)

“What I have to do…is (pause for quite a long time) unthinkable,” by the time Henry (Samuel L Jackson) spills this out a lot has been done to dig out the truth from Yusuf/Younger (Michael Sheen). In the very beginning of this movie we see Younger preparing his video in which he intents it to be seen by the United States president. The only truth that is wanted from him is about the nuclear bombs, quite a number of them, which he connected in different American cities because he had demands that he wanted the American government to meet within three days or else…BOOM! He expressed his demands clearly in the video to the president.

The movie is directed by the famous Gregor Jordan who has been quite long around the industry, he also written and directed many movies like “Two Hands” which is an Australian Crime Film. It collected the Australian Institute Award for Best Film in 1999.

The multi-award winning Samuel L Jackson in “Unthinkable” is used as a character that frequently play hard-hitting scenes, rebellious ones. Hear him (to his colleagues who did not appreciate some of the things he committed) when he does something really bad but for the benefit of the state, “you wanna know where the bombs are or not, it’s my responsibility…this is not about you, this is war, this is sacrifice!,” then after doing the thing that made many raised eyebrows and screamed he angrily shouted “there is no time,” as the day of explosion of the bombs was approaching.

Bad things as Jackson is mostly known for in his characters are not really rare in this movie, but at this time around for the good of the whole United States, so the things did not go according to my thoughts and expectations about Jackson in this point.

CIA investigation specialist in this terrorism act happens to be Henry who promoted torturing the terrorist in every possible way that will make him speak the truth. In the process of torturing the terrorist and the truth is nowhere close from coming out, H really does a very bad thing that no man could stand, but did Yusuf spill the beans?

Some of the top officials has a belief that Yusuf might be lying about the bombs, saying that those bombs would be only shells. Agent Brody (Carric-Anne Moss) goes straight to him asking him to only give them a proof if the bombs are real, and Younger gave them the first location and it came to their attention if the bombs were real or not.

Agent Brody always tried to stop H from his tactics of seeking truth from Yusuf and always said “this is illegal, I will not allow this to happen!” She always suggests that talking with terrorist was much better than torturing him. Things just suddenly got out of hand after the bad act I introduced you to committed by H, that is where agent Brody just said H must do what he has to do, there was no other response other than “what I have to do…is unthinkable.” The really fascinating part is the “Unthinkable” H kept on talking about.

This terrorism movie works because it keeps suspense right up until the end. There are those scenes that will make you close your eyes and hold your hands up straight to your chicks. Does H end up doing the “Unthinkable”?