| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Henry Harold 'H' Humphries | |
| Carrie-Anne Moss | ... | Agent Helen Brody | |
| Michael Sheen | ... | Steven Arthur Younger | |
| Stephen Root | ... | Charles Thompson | |
| Lora Kojovic | ... | Rina Humphries | |
| Martin Donovan | ... | Assistant Director Jack Saunders | |
| Gil Bellows | ... | Agent Vincent | |
| Vincent Laresca | ... | Agent Leandro | |
| Brandon Routh | ... | Agent D.J. Jackson | |
| Joshua Harto | ... | Agent Phillips | |
| Holmes Osborne | ... | General Paulson | |
| Michael Rose | ... | Colonel Kerkmejian | |
| Randy Oglesby | ... | Mr. Bradley | |
| Benito Martinez | ... | Alvarez | |
| Sasha Roiz | ... | Interrogator Lubitchich | |
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant," known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Carrie-Anne Moss represents the average citizen watching this movie, having a facade of superior human rights beliefs (that we tend to have in western countries) that gradually get whittled away as the situation in the movie get more desperate.
How far are we really willing to go to save millions of people? When the entire country is at stake, how far is the US really willing to go with dealing with terrorists? We can claim our governments are moral and upholding human rights, but at the end of the day, the government can do whatever it wants. It doesn't need your approval, and it will do what it believes is required for self-preservation. This movie flaunts that idea.
Unthinkable has excellent mind-play and dialogue that really gets you thinking and challenges what we really believe about human rights.