Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

juneebuggy This was a decent crime thriller about 5 men who wake up in a locked warehouse with no memory of how they got there or even who they are. Suffering short term amnesia from an expelled "mystery" gas container they gradually discover/deduce that 2 of them are hostages and 3 are kidnappers, but who are the good guys and who are the bad? Its up to you to figure it out.Clever premise, a talented cast and a twisty mystery make this worth a watch. Its sort of like The 'Usual Suspects' meets 'Saw' with a little 'Memento' thrown in. I never did guess who the bad guys were and I liked how this movie became a sort of puzzle as clues were revealed with each of the characters flashbacks as their memories started to return. Smart little twist at the end with several along the way.Impressive performances from Jim Caviezel, Barry Pepper, Greg Kinnear and Joe Pantoliano. 1/12/16

suite92 Jean Jacket wakes up in a closed room where the one exit is locked by passcode. Other prisoners are present, and most seem worse for the wear. Jean Jacket pounds on the door and raises a holler or ten, but gets no attention. He takes a phone call, and takes notes, but seems not to know what it was about.Broken Nose, Bound Man, Handcuffed Man, and Rancher Shirt wake up soon there after, and the four of them try to figure out who they are and why they are together.Elsewhere, Eliza cooperates with law enforcement to get her husband back.Snakeskin Boots intercepts the hostage money and eludes the police; he calls the trapped men and tells them he will meet with them before sundown. Bound Man finds a gun, but Jean Jacket takes it away from him. They discover instructions about the toxic gas stored in canister around the rooms. It can cause temporary memory loss in small doses. Broken Nose begins to remember a bit later; he was one of the abductees. He talks to Rancher Shirt, the other abductee. Rancher Shirt tries to get the gun from Jean Jacket, but fails.Broken Nose frees Bound Man, and the anger rises and partial memories surface. Jean Jacket gives Handcuffed Man some water, but cannot get the handcuffs off.The last two kidnappers are coming with the money. Two cops are tailing them with mixed success. Erin is in despair about losing her husband. The men in the room with memory loss are cooperating to find a way out before the kidnappers come.How does this pan out? Be prepared for twists and turns as the memories surface.------Scores-------Cinematography: 8/10 No problems.Sound: 9/10 Well done.Acting: 7/10 Jim Caviezel, Bridget Moynihan, Peter Stormare, and Joe Pantoliano were excellent. On the other hand, Greg Kinnear was unconvincing as usual; with every line he speaks, I look for an indication that it's a joke or a bluff. I only believe his insincerity. Jeremy Sisto disappoints as always. Screenplay: 9/10 Kept me guessing to the end.

Steve Pulaski 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.

atinder This is a great movie, it dose sound a little bit like SAW but it nothing like it at all.Five men wake up and can not remember who they are or how they got, their and soon find out that some of them are Kidnappers and some are Hostages and they don't who's who.Their are few disagreements with two of the men and they soon find out, how their memory were erased.There was a really good twist, which I did not see coming at all, there so another twist they i don't fully understand at the end, which i think was one twist too many.The acting was great from the whole cast and I going to give this movie 8 out of 10