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best movie i've ever seen.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

This film is about five men waking up in an old warehouse, with no memory of who they are and why they are there."Unknown" tells a story where no one knows what is happening. From the available environmental evidence and fragments of memory that comes back to the five men, they deduce what happened to them. They try to get out but in vain. The atmosphere is filled with mistrust and suspense. It is scary when there is no one you can trust, and this film capture this feeling very well. I was thoroughly kept on the edge but the mysterious plot, and I was impressed by the double twist at the end. I think "Unknown"is a good thriller and I hope to watch similar films.

Unknown plays more like a psychological thriller rather than a plain old thriller, as it follows around five men who awaken in an abandoned warehouse with no recollection of their name or previous events. It isn't before long that they find that three of the five men are free, while the other two are tied up. This could possibly mean that the three are the kidnappers and the other two, the hostages.There are a grand amount of twist and turns, so many, that I will not bother to try and decipher things. Not only are we following the guys in the warehouse, but we're also trying to keep up with the band of robbers who are apparently tied in with the five in the warehouse. The five guys in the warehouse don't have names, though. The credits of the film refer to them by their appearance. Jim Caviezel, easily my favorite character of the film, is "Jean Jacket," while Greg Kinnear is "Broken Nose." Just like many thrillers, you may have to suspend disbelief. Apparently, how these men lost their memories is because a gas leak was going on for several days, wiping them clean. So, the gas can wipe their memories, but when breathed for two days straight can't kill them? No problem. I've dealt with stranger circumstances with that. Physics in Transformers: Dark of the Moon for example.Performance-wise, the film is stable. It's not easy to pull off the "I don't know because I just don't know" act, but all five of the men are capable and shy away from overacting. The film also gets strong points for the editing and setting, which are creepy and involved, yet still feels a tad unexplored. It's too bad we didn't spend the remainder of the film in the warehouse, rather than both the outside and the warehouse. Setting it up in that location would've been wholly effective and the building blocks for a wonderful claustrophobic thriller.Unknown is sufficient entertainment. It isn't the edge of your seat type or the play with your mind type thriller, but the somewhat preposterous but ultimately rewarding kind of thriller. For me, that's more than enough. I too, can't imagine what the auditions were like when Jim Caviezel tried out. "What has this guy done in the past?" "He played Jesus." "Sign him up." Starring: Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Bridget Moynahan, Joe Pantoliano, Barry Pepper, and Jeremy Sisto. Directed by: Simon Brand.

Okay, there is some 'action' scenes that make it good for a 2-hour getaway. But c'mon! It's laughable beyond the action when one considers for a moment what it's trying to make us accept or believe.Such as: --Forgetting the 'brief case' with all the pass ports, information is unfathomable. -- He rushes back to the airport to get it without so much as a hint to the 'wife' that he's doing so. -- What does 'oz' mean everywhere? Another blogger already noticed that. -- Why did the 'wife' go into the suite to onhook the bomb because her face still would've been recorded when they were there 3 months prior anyway! -- And why didn't she break the wall out further to get to the bomb deactivate system, rather than reaching down blindly down through the wall and blowing herself up anyway? -- Why did the hardened, East German spy readily eat cyanide just because that old rogue showed up at his apartment? Why'd he give in so soon, when he could've killed him as a trespasser or robber? -- Why was it that the only two people catching a train was Liam and the other hit dude? -- Save your money and go see instead: Barney's Version.

Five men wake up at an abandoned warehouse, none of them remembering who he is, and all of them in a pretty dramatic situation: one is badly wounded and in cuffs, another is tied down to a chair, and they're all locked in. They soon learn that the "bad guys" are on their way there. Some of these five men are criminals and others are their victims, but they don't know who is who. However, they're all in danger, so they're going to have to cooperate in order to save their lives.That's "Unknown"'s attractive premise. It is not really original, as isn't anything about the movie, actually. However, I feel that something better could have been done out of it. There's nothing wrong with "Unknown", and in fact I enjoyed it quite a bit -but it's definitely a minor movie. I personally have no problem with movies that aren't going to stick in my memory after they end, and in fact, I often prefer movies that offer pure entertainment value over those that are trying to "make me think". However, if you fall into the latter category, you're probably going to be disappointed at this movie, because you've probably seen "Memento", "Reservoir dogs", "The usual suspects", "Saw", and others. The inspiration from all of those is in "Unknown" in some form or manner, and "Unknown" has nothing new or ground-breaking to offer.All in all, it is a very entertaining movie which probably falls short of its own potential. Enjoyable from beginning to end, though.