Unknown (2006)

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

Director:

Simon Brand

Writer:

Matthew Waynee

Stars:

Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jim Caviezel	...	Jean Jacket
Greg Kinnear	...	Broken Nose
Bridget Moynahan	...	Eliza Coles
Joe Pantoliano	...	Bound Man
Barry Pepper	...	Rancher Shirt
Jeremy Sisto	...	Handcuffed Man
Peter Stormare	...	Snakeskin Boots
Chris Mulkey	...	Detective James Curtis
Clayne Crawford	...	Detective Anderson
Kevin Chapman	...	Detective McGahey
Mark Boone Junior	...	Bearded Man
Wilmer Calderon	...	Detective Molina
David Selby	...	Police Captain Parker
Adam Rodriguez	...	County Doctor
Jeff Daniel Phillips	...	Iron Cross (as Jeffrey Daniel Phillips)

Storyline

Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.

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Plot Keywords:

warehouse | scheming wife | handcuffed to a pipe | shot in the shoulder | ripping a telephone from the wall | 

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Taglines:

Trust no one. Fear everyone.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Russia]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 November 2006 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Agnostoi

Filming Locations:

Desert Center, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$3,700,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$3,746 (USA) (3 November 2006)

Gross:

$63,677,735 (USA) (6 May 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rick Lashbrook Films, Eleven Eleven Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Both Jim Caviezel and Jeremy Sisto have portrayed the role of Jesus Christ on film; Most recently, Caviezel starred in The Passion of the Christ while Sisto previously assumed the role for Jesus. In addition, Peter Stormare played Satan in 'Constantine (2005)'.

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Goofs

When Jim Caviezel offers Joe Pantoliano (who is tied to a chair) a bottle of water, Jim opens it by pulling off the cap. If Joe has the bottle a moment later, he pulls off the cap again with his teeth.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jean Jacket: Who are you? Who the fuck are you?

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Connections

Remade as Acid Factory (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Unknown"
Written and Performed by Joe Stansberry

User Reviews

This movie should be Well Known

A man wakes up in an abandoned warehouse. Groggily getting to his feet, he sees several other men, some laying prone, one hanging from handcuffs, one tied to a chair. The man has no recollection of who he is, how he got there, who the other men are, nothing. No recollection other than that he just woke up.

Unknown is a solid, twisty caper/thriller, about a kidnapping that somehow goes wrong; we pick up the action the same time that our protagonist (or is he?) does, so we have to piece things together with him. And, as it turns out, with the others in the warehouse, each of whom has suffered short-term memory loss. Who is "good," who is "bad," and where the heck are they? The man can't get out of the warehouse (there are bars on the windows, and the only door to the outside is electronically controlled), and they have limited means with which to defend themselves. But what if some of them are the ones against whom they should be defending? What then? One thing I liked about this movie, above all else, really, was that whatever did happen, it was neither blindly predictable nor completely implausible. No one trusts anyone, really, but no one completely mistrusts others, either.

Helping matters is the wonderful, flawless cast, including Jim Caviezel (as the initial waker-upper), Barry Pepper, Greg Kinnear, Joe Pantoliano, Jeremy Sisto, Chris Mulkey, and Peter Stormare. Everyone is dead on; there are no hams this time around. Everything just plain feels right, and what's more, not one character is Good or Bad. Sure, you wake up with Jim Caviezel, and you get the idea he's Good, but he doesn't always act Good. If that makes sense.

See, at no point did I feel I comfortably knew what the hey hey was going on. There were feints and double crosses, but not so haphazardly that they lose meaning. We've all seen movies like that, movies that are completely wrapped up in being clever and self-important, so they managed to write themselves into a corner and therefore make no freaking sense.

Unknown makes sense all along but still surprises, and that's saying something. A lot better than you might imagine it being, based on its title.