Movie Review: Unthinkable (2010)
Critical Critic: Colin Harris | Published on: May 23, 2010 |
Filed under: Drama, Thriller
Directed By: Gregor Jordan
MPAA Rating: R
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, Carrie-Anne Moss, Brandon Routh
IMDB Link: Unthinkable
Movie Trailer: Trailer
The videotape rolls: “My name is Yusuf Mohammad, my former name is Steven Arthur Younger, and I have planted three nuclear bombs across the country. They will detonate unless my demands are met.” He then points the camera at exhibit A, looking suspiciously like a nuclear bombs with oh, I should say, about 4.5 pounds of uranium capable of killing 10 million people. The bombs are due to go off in three days time.
First off, let me get the inevitable comparison out of the way. Unthinkable is 24: The Movie, by any other name, but Jack Bauer is replaced (perhaps fittingly) by not one but two people. First, we have Agent Brody (Carrie-Anne Moss) of, yes, the CTU. She’s the logical, calm side of counter terrorism. Representing the hawks, so to speak, is H. (Samuel L. Jackson) who, when we first meet him, is casually disarming and gaffer-taping two FBI agents who have the audacity to knock at his door. The FBI have called in H., you see, because Younger has willingly let himself be arrested so as to face his enemy knowing full well the sort of interrogations he can expect to have to endure. So, we have the nuclear scenario, the ticking countdowns, the torture porn, and Muslim fanaticism. We just need Chloe to upload the schematics to Jack’s PDA to complete the set.
The CTU, the FBI and the military have all moved to a secure area, a high-school gymnasium, where they present Younger in a holding tank, centre-stage. He is being casually worked over by an army interrogator: Sleep deprivation, hot and cold torture, a bit of the ol’ psychological stuff, but nothing untoward. It’s still too much for peacenik Brody, though, who cites the Geneva Convention and other do-gooder citizens rights. As the song goes, she ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. H. steps in, muttering something like “amateurs” as he goes, and for his opening gambit cuts off two of Younger’s fingers. “You have to make them believe you have no limits”, he tells the horrified onlookers as he straps electrodes to Younger’s private and presumably shrivelled parts. This is not 24; simply shouting the witness into submission is not going to work here.
Brody and H. team up in a good-cop/bad-cop way, both of them trying to find the location of the bombs. Younger, though, is ex-military and a tough nut to crack. When not gently interrogating Younger, Agent Brody instructs the rest of her team to go on any clues they might have – the wife, perhaps, or the locations on the tape. The clock is ticking…
Unthinkable is a well-written movie that works despite some average direction. For example, the characters, despite being senior officials in their chosen fields, speak that dumbed-down language that we so often see in identikit movies. They constantly feel the need to spell out exactly what it is that they’re doing, for fear that we, the viewer, might miss something important or technical. At one point, Agent Brody unrolls a map — a giant map is always handy in such situations — and tries to deduce the locations of the bombs. “New York, I would think”, she says, “And on the West Coast perhaps LA. In the middle, maybe Chicago or Dallas.” The map: Worth its weight in gold again.
Michael Sheen, formerly seen primarily as an impersonator in movies such as Frost/Nixon, The Queen and The Damned United, is the pick of the actors here. His Younger is a man with conviction, a man with the destinies of millions of people in his hands, and an unflinching drive to remove the troops from Islamic nations. Jackson revels in his role of torturer/interrogator — think Olivier’s Szell in Marathon Man, times a hundred — but the winner in this movie is writer Peter Woodward (son of Edward) who has written a screenplay that transcends it’s rather average re-telling. Flaws or no flaws, I was intrigued from start to finish.
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Tiki posted a response on: May 25, 2010 | Reply
The movie left a bad feeling in me.
Almost like “if they would’ve kept on with the tortureplan, everything could have come out OK”
… a sickening idea.
ilikeit posted a response on: May 25, 2010 | Reply
I love the ending. Do the math. It’s not hard.
Colin Harris posted a response on: May 26, 2010 | Reply
I agree with Tiki, and I think that that was the point of the movie - is torture justified to save the life of 10 million people and, if so, is it justified to save the life of a thousand, a hundred, or even just one?
orange cinema posted a response on: May 29, 2010 | Reply
i don’t think the dumbed down language is a directing flaw - that would always be on the writer. but if perhaps the deliveries were ruining good lines, or even making bad lines worse - then that would be more suitably worthy of the ‘average directing’ claim.
side note: there is actually an actress from this most recent season of 24: Necar Zadegan. she is certainly someone to watch, I just hope she’s able to break away from the pigeon hole casting she’s found herself in, as the girl has ALOT more to deliver than simply the run of the mill middle eastern wife/woman roles she has been landing. but at the start of a career, there’s certainly nothing to complain about.
not-impressed posted a response on: May 31, 2010 | Reply
How can anyone like the ending to this film? The 4th nuclear bomb goes off… its sick. The dates that read on each bomb is 2012. This american terrorist propaganda needs to stop, its utter bullS*#*
Christian Toto posted a response on: June 2, 2010 | Reply
This is a real head scratcher - I have no idea why the film couldn’t land a theatrical release. It seems like a highly marketable concept with grade A actors. I’m going to try to make some calls on this and hopefully get closer to the answers …
General Disdain posted a response on: June 2, 2010 | Reply
I’d guess it has to do with the subject matter; distributors probably didn’t want to touch it . . .
platonic posted a response on: June 2, 2010 | Reply
I can’t believe there’s people out there who like this film. It’s boring from start to finish. They knew how much plutonium that guy stole but don’t ask where the rest is until this torture guy “reveals” it? How stupid is that?
This film doesn’t even have a story. It’s just 90 minutes of torture bullshit.
“How far would you go” bla bla bla. That idea would have been good for some minutes of the film, but the whole thing??
Come on…
Richard posted a response on: June 4, 2010 | Reply
what people need to realise is this isn’t real, writers wrote this so don’t watch this and start thinking torture is ok because it isn’t. The amount of innocent people that have been tortured just because they’ve been allowed to be tortured is probably in the tens of thousands.
marie posted a response on: June 5, 2010 | Reply
It’s easy to look at the flaws of the movie as to details (on the plutonium count) as well as to the tone (boring), as PLATONIC points out.
What we’re missing out is the effect this film has. GENERAL DISDAIN is right. Distributors wouldn’t want to touch a subject like this. Clearly, because it is delicate in all angles. For that, the movie deserves a commendation.
What it does is force people to think and take sides. Sure, torture is globally recognized as conceptually wrong. But when you place it in a context such as national (or global) security, do you change your mind? There goes the rub. This movie pushes you to cross your conceptual boundaries and decide.
In the end, you resolve. You either find justification for a taboo concept, or your inclination that it is wrong is fortified. Then you begin to look back at all the characters of the movie and either begin to understand why people act that way or begin to draw solid lines as to your concepts of good and bad behavior and/or beliefs.
And for a movie to be able to do this is, indeed, a powerful one.
Roger posted a response on: June 6, 2010 | Reply
The title says it all, unthinkable. The first message of this film is clearly that torture is totally useless. Actually Younger is brutally tortured during the whole movie but he does not reveale anything to his sadic persecutor. So what’s the second message? Well, if you really want to obtain some results, it is necessary to go further and torture innocent people. Women and children with no exceptions and no limits. This must be insane with no justifications for anybody. I personnally would never accept to have my life, and the life of my family, saved by these means. Never!
Colin Harris posted a response on: June 6, 2010 | Reply
Strong words, Roger! Both are innocent - your family and the family of the terrorist - but I’m not sure I could ever say what I could or couldn’t do when it comes to my family.
S posted a response on: June 10, 2010 | Reply
It was very depressing movie.
Movie did not give any meaning. From starting to end everything was expected and thinkable.. I actually did not understand what was unthinkable in that movie.
I will not recommend this movie to any of my friends.
shiv posted a response on: June 15, 2010 | Reply
Movie is good. Andthe message is thousands of people killed everyday in war gripped countries. like iraq, afganistan, srilanka…. The message from that terrorist is ” you people see, like this way only my people got tortures from your army. pls stop this. just think!”
Cymbol posted a response on: June 18, 2010 | Reply
I thought the movie was really good. The end, even though I would have liked some closure, was interesting and thought provoking. Millions of people would have been saved if they H continue the torture…but they didn’t. Now, who would have been doing the unthinkable? Would it be the terrorist by killing millions of people? Or would it be H by torturing one man and his family…4 people. Now, having the bomb go off won’t only kills millions of people, but it will effect the friends and family of the people killed from it.
So which is the the right thing to do…let millions of people die…or prevent that from happening by doing the “unthinkable”?
Samuel posted a response on: June 21, 2010 | Reply
I am not a fan of suspense movies by any means but this film and its’ direction were top notch. Acting, story, dimensional characters, and a nice small upsetting turn towards the end. But in all seriousness people I would have done the ‘unthinkable’ to his children if I knew he had a third bomb, as H did. We elected these officials into these positions to make decisions for us that we obviously feel we as citizens are not capable to make so don’t go getting a conscious just because you had a front row seat to what is really done to get the answers we need to keep this great country going. So what if that makes us no better then them. Would you rather 10 million lives be lost so you can keep your conscious clean, as agent Brody did. If you said yes then I hope you are not in a position of authority because then I would have real reason to be worried. Grow up accept the reality and let’s keep doing EVERYTHING we NEED to do keep our country safe.
Joshua posted a response on: June 23, 2010 | Reply
I agree with Samuel 100%. That is just being selfish. My conscious says this is wrong, so I am going to let millions of people die because of it? Both decisions are unthinkable. A: How could you kill millions of people with a bomb? B: How can you stop the operation that would have led to those millions of people being saved. Taking those children out of that room was not saving them. Death is inevitable, those bombs were going to kill EVERYBODY.
Rich posted a response on: June 23, 2010 | Reply
I just saw this movie last night and thought it was awesome. It kept my interested from start to finish and i thought the acting was great. This is one of the better movies i’ve seen in the past couple of months.
Choice posted a response on: June 24, 2010 | Reply
There is a line in the movie said by Officer Helen Broody that really brings out the entire soul, spirit, and POINT of this movie. For those of you who asked “Whats was the creator of this movie thinking? And what was his message?”, listen up.
In the final scene where ‘H’ states that he will not bring the kids in (for a second time) to try and coax the 4th bomb’s location out of the terrorist, UNLESS Officer Broody gives him permission, she screams these words:
“You cant do this! We’re fucking human beings! Let the bomb go off, we can’t do this!”
I think her point was made by those words. There are times when we have 2 options as human beings, when being threatened by a large force.
We can do the right thing, and leave his kids out of it and follow regulatory interrogation techniques. Or we can be evil, and do what we saw here in this film; torture, kill, threaten, and use fear to get results.
Basically….we can all die as good people who did the right thing, or we can live as horrid people who ‘did what they had to’ to survive. Choice in yours.
bobsuncorp posted a response on: June 27, 2010 | Reply
I agree with Choice. There is “human being” in the biological/evolutionary sense, then there is human being in the moral sense. And when torture of this kind (to terrorists let alone their families) is countenanced, we are no longer human beings.
H’s point about torture being used since the dawn of man so it must work is fallacious. After all rape, slavery, murder, genocide, these are all elements that have been with us for just as long, and the entire point of religion and governments is to try and impose rules on ourselves so these actions do not happen.
In the TV show Lie To Me, Tim Roth’s character said a line that has stuck with me whenever I consider this issue: “Do you know what they call a government that suspends the rules every time there is an emergency? A Dictatorship”.
To all those who thought this film was boring, go and rewatch Saw. And don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll be making real snuff movies soon enough.
bobup posted a response on: June 27, 2010 | Reply
It’s a perfect recruitment video for Islamic terrorists. Cut out the 20 minutes of ‘justification’ and it pretends to show how badly we treat ’suspects’, especially anyone who is Islam. If anything is going to enrage the Islamic world against us it will be Hollywood, for profit. Remember, we know it’s ‘Hollywood’ other people seeing this out of context do not.
No point, No redeeming value, disappointed with everyone involved…..
J posted a response on: June 30, 2010 | Reply
Roger posted a response on: June 6, 2010 | Reply
“The title says it all, unthinkable. The first message of this film is clearly that torture is totally useless. Actually Younger is brutally tortured during the whole movie but he does not reveale anything to his sadic persecutor. So what’s the second message? Well, if you really want to obtain some results, it is necessary to go further and torture innocent people. Women and children with no exceptions and no limits. This must be insane with no justifications for anybody. I personnally would never accept to have my life, and the life of my family, saved by these means. Never!”
Seriously Roger? You should really listen to how foolish you sound trying to make yourself appear as the sin-less hero. ROGER is a perfect example of a self-righteous moron. Anyone who have walked upon third world countries, along with facing difficult decisions that are immoral can tell who are the ignorant naive holier than thou idiots. Ignorant idiots such as Roger, can only talk about being the clean white knight due to their own stupidity derived from their ignorance.
PatricMan posted a response on: July 2, 2010 | Reply
So those of you who watched Unthinkable agree that American interrogation techniques may work?
Frank Ritz posted a response on: July 3, 2010 | Reply
I was surprised by this movie! I thought it just looked stupid and a rip-off of 24 and every other bomb movie ever made. I ended up liking it quite a bit, more than you actually. I’d give it a, Not Bad. Samuel is just a awesome bad-ass and Michael was great. Good movie, good review.
sharu posted a response on: July 4, 2010 | Reply
u r definitely a moron roger.
u think the torture made by H is useless and that silly broody is a great lady who thinks she is the only human in that team?
do u know terrorists of Islamic country are much more worst than these interrogators haven’t u watched those videos on youtube and stuff regarding the torture of terrorists to innocent ppl.do u know a kid of just 10 yrs is a real threat to a nation if e has undergone a training in terrorist camp?i saw a video on how they r trained in terrorist camp. if i were to b in that position may b i wouldn’t have gone that far to kill those children but i would make that fuc*** younger to believe i would torture much more that what was done to him b4
come on guys wake up see the torture videos done by those fuc*** terrorists .don’t u think v have all the rights to torture terrorists in the same way?
PatricMan posted a response on: July 4, 2010 | Reply
Regardless, of everyone’s opinion, if H would have been given free hand all the way to the end, 10 million life would have been saved. That’s a fact. But then again, it’s just a movie, so cool down everyone
Morpheus posted a response on: July 8, 2010 | Reply
The moview is delivers a PowerFul Message
“H” and the Goons around him represent the US Govt and its Foreign Policies
“Brody” Represents normal Peace Loving People and Some Open Minded Americans
“Yusuf” Represents All the People (Muslims) Subjugated to Occupations, Bommbings, Robbery from their Land.
In the End Nobody Wins. Go Figure.
Do What Yusuf Demanded. Was it to much to ask?
He Wanted Peace for ALL. Nothing Else.
KittyKat posted a response on: July 9, 2010 | Reply
Excellent movie! It was intense! It did a great job of presenting the ultimate conundrum…how do people of conscience deal with murdering Muslim savages? Obviously, the answer is, you can’t. Savage behavior requires a savage response, whether we like it or not. The movie obviously left the idea that the Muslim terrorist’s weak spot was his children. H even noted that in the movie, that every man lies, and he would find the lie in the man he was torturing. Even the killing of the terrorist’s wife didn’t make him crack. The movie left you with the idea that had H gone all the way with the kids, and maimed or killed at least one of them in their father’s presence, the terrorist would’ve cracked and told the location of the 4th bomb, saving millions of lives.
And now for a real story…I once knew of a tank commander who was in the lead tank that rolled into a town, and was confronted in the middle of the road by a child holding a rocket launcher, pointing it at the tank. Adults lined the street, taunting the commander. In a split second, he had to make the choice whether to kill the child or not. He chose not to, and the child fired the rocket launcher, burning to death most everyone in that tank. Those that lived, including the tank commander, suffered debilitating and disfiguring burns, some to the point that they had no ears, fingers or eyelids. It’s the same conundrum. How does one deal with savage behavior? Savage behavior requires a savage response…unflinching, with no mercy, no recoil. And that’s why we have black ops. So, they can do the dirty work that “normal” people don’t have the stomach to do, in order to insure the security of our nation and the safety of our citizens.
I think this quote from the movie, The Wrath of Khan says it best, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” In war (and we are at war with the violent part of Islamic ideology that foments terrorism) there always will be collateral damage on the receiving end, and the idea is to minimize it as much as possible.
flash posted a response on: July 12, 2010 | Reply
its not about doing math; its about to be a human or to live in the jungle ; i prefer to be a human and to die like one
PatricMan posted a response on: July 12, 2010 | Reply
So some of you prefer to be human and to die like one - In a nuclear blast?
yuseff posted a response on: July 19, 2010 | Reply
tourture shud be used in order justified in the means of a grater cause also justify deseption of a terorist that has been caught and and admits to terrorisim….
unthinkable posted a response on: July 19, 2010 | Reply
making decision is the hardest thing to do in life because it always asks us pay back later. If agent Broody decide to leave the children to be used in the interrogation for the 4th bomb, she might have to live with it forever although millions of people saved.
However, she doesn’t have time to think that much at the very moment, and in a second, she made her decision and that decision effects the world - life, which is unthinkable itself but many people might forget it. Really! such a competent agent may breaks off anytime (event with very tiny possibility) and make unthinkable action just showing us that this world is not for us to control by thinking and thinking continuously.
bobsuncorp posted a response on: July 19, 2010 | Reply
The greatest thing about this movie is how it has caused the debate we are all having, since it is through such debate that we find answers, if any are to be found. I personally think that is why the movie was made, not that the writer was trying to say one or other side is right, simply that it needs to be discsussed.
My opinion is that the competing factors of self preservation and preservation of loved ones is in competition with the responsibility to future generations to be better people. Do you think that members of civil rights movementss didn’t have to make sacrifices? To say nothing of those living in a medieval society trying to prove that a peasants life is worth as much as a noblemans. The only reason we are able to discuss such matters is because we have the freedom to do so, and we have that freedom because our ancestors have made personal and tragic sacrifices for the benefit of their descendants. Which is us. So in gratitude to those sacrifices we have a responsibility to keep one eye on the future and be continually trying to improve the morality of the human race.
It would be very easy to give into anger and fear and do everything to preserve those we love at the expense of those trying to hurt us, especially if their moral code gives them no such limitations, but to do so is both a betrayal of those who have sacrificed for us and a continuance of the kind of violence that threatens to drown us in blood and hate. The cycle must end, and waiting for the other side to end it first is useless.
We must be continually trying to improve ourselves, and worry less about killing and torturing who we must to keep breathing, since that is also setting an example to our descendants. The kind of example that took hundreds of years of slow painful progress to undo in the first place. The jobs not over yet, not by a long way, so lets not turn back after all we have already accomplished.
Ronaldo posted a response on: July 19, 2010 | Reply
Interesting, thought provoking movie. Seems to be very polarizing.
The question seems to be whether it’s okay to torture one or a few in order to save many? The writer seems to fall on the side that torture doesn’t really work, and is ineffective at deterring such actions. I might agree to the extent of the determination and resolve of the individual that’s committing the act. Truth is, almost everyone has a breaking point and can be made to spill. But, as a moral society, is it right for us to do such things in order to save a few lives? The question might be better asked if it were brought to a personal level. What if the terrorist was about to kill your family members? What lengths would you personally go to in order to save their lives? Would you take his life in order to save theirs, or would you threaten and even kill one of his family members in order to save one of yours?
Jeremy posted a response on: July 23, 2010 | Reply
While the extremity of the movie DID make it all the more effective, in my opinion it at times crossed the line into ridiculous. For instance at one point in the movie an innocent character is violently killed for no reason other than to advance the interogation: I very much doubt this would be allowed in reality.
JN posted a response on: July 25, 2010 | Reply
How many here have watched Zeitgeist the movie?
www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Boyd posted a response on: July 27, 2010 | Reply
The ending to me seemed clear enough ..he knows he’ll likely never see his kids again right? He’ll either be sentenced to death or life in prison, so he takes the easy road out and kills himself. Clearly there was no 4th bomb? Why would he say look after my children if he was going to know they would die in the explosion? It took me about ten minuites after I watched to put it together but really it’s not that hard. “H” did his job by getting the locations of the bombs and all points were proved.
Pav posted a response on: July 30, 2010 | Reply
Boyd, has it never crossed your mind that the 4th nuclear bomb was in a completely different city, away from his children? After all, his children won’t be persecuted (by the government anyway) for their father’s actions, so his suicide was his easy way out of having to LIVE with the consequences of his actions.
dude posted a response on: August 6, 2010 | Reply
I think it was a relatively well-done film (on the technical aspect of it and for being entertaining) but with a bad purpose. What it did apparently, was to leave a perception that all tortures under Bush and others are always sort of justifiable by putting the viewer in a hard situation of choosing between; torturing (as far as torturing two kids) or death of 10,000,000 people. That is the ridiculous part; such an exaggeration. We must now take sides although in reality they had probably never had to deal with such situations. At the same time, it s damn clear that it s just another propaganda against the poor muslims. What about the muslim terrorists here and there? If you see good, really good, you always find links and roots of them with some dirty politics and CIA. I know myself a couple of muslims. They are just normal people like you and me. So in the end, those politicians who allowed tortures and those ignorant who think being a muslim means automatically being a terrorist are most happy with this film.
jelena213 posted a response on: August 10, 2010 | Reply
I can not beleive that the people can see only one side of the medal. This movie reveiled a message to the western countries, especially USA, on the obviously wrong and highly unmoral policy that they are implementing in the east, especially muslim oil countries! By ways of aggresion, manipulation and other lowes manners, they are living with high standards on other people backs, better to say other people blood and starvation.
What was H suppose to do? Nothing that has’nt been done already accross the world. Just look at this data, and tell me who is supporting this kind of regimes and why?!!!! http://thewondrous.com/can-you-guess-who-lives-in-this-house/
cheers
jelena213 posted a response on: August 10, 2010 | Reply
and another thing, I just read the comment, and I completely agree with Morpheus, there are no winners in war.
hegemonyofthecores posted a response on: August 10, 2010 | Reply
I agree with jelena, if the US wars of aggression did a justification for the 911 bombing, it did more than just that. What yussof said of 50+ people being killed each day by US military advances is quite true, it may not amount to the same figures but it is true (translated into various barbarity - genocides, murder and other unaccounted extra-judicial acts).. though, i don’t agree with his means to justify the end. But what i see is a desperation of a people stripped of their land, home and rights and that there is a threshold in their suffering. His demands are timely and justified; war is never without its atrocities.
MARIO posted a response on: August 11, 2010 | Reply
Men the 4 bomb was in the same building , so the people that reset 1 bomb also was gonna die, at the end the 10.000.000 DIE . So that show us that sometimes think Happend dont matter what you do and in how many ways you interfers Sometimes the destiny is to happend. good movie !! I DONT LIKE THE ENDING I THINK THEY had many ways to make the endingto make the movie a 10/10 movie or increase the likeness of the movue. sorry about my english i am a MUSLIM and i place 3 bombs in 3 computer of you that comment here. LOL jajajaj Is a joke take it easy
bobsuncorp posted a response on: August 11, 2010 | Reply
Mario, the scary thing is that you can’t even joke about that stuff anymore. Echelon has recorded your comment and traced your IP address and the FBI will be calling at your house. That combined with the sister of the cousin of an old college roomate who was once taught by the brother of a student of a cousin of a member of someone on the terrorist watchlist (because he once tried to throw an egg at Bush) means that you could be Rendered.
Obviously I am not serious, but my point is that these things happen. Also how scary is it that there is actually a commonly recognised word for the abduction and imprisonment and torture of a citizen in complete disregard of their human and civil rights?
Caesar posted a response on: August 12, 2010 | Reply
This movie is just another example of predictive programming. Its message is totally irrelevant, it’s only meant to soften your mind up for scenarios like this happening in real life.
Through reflection, repetition and debate you will come to see it as inevitable reality. By thinking about it you make that what was previously unthinkable, thinkable.
jelena213 posted a response on: August 13, 2010 | Reply
It is only thinkable for does who see the movie as agression vs agrression =justification.
I see the movie as a clear message to stop the violence, cause it is not real, normal, human (whatever) to be in a situation to decide what is better: to kill 3 people of to let 10 to be killed! Life is life, and precious for everybody.
Let people live their lives, and stop the madness!
This is what USA public should try to push, because they have pulled a lot of hatred upon themselves.
If the movie results in more fear of terrorists and more aggresion towards other countries, this might really happen!
WH posted a response on: August 17, 2010 | Reply
You guyz dont get it, the message is obvious and very clear, it is revealed towards the end of the movie when Younger caused 52 people’s death in a minor explosion, he starts screaming “You expect me to weep over 52 civilians when YOU kill that number everyday?”.
Personally I loved this movie, it had more than one message in it; shows us how f**cked up we can be.
Yasser posted a response on: September 2, 2010 | Reply
In the name of Allah the merciful,and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. My name is Yasser and my former name is Jason, and I’m an American Citizen. :p
I like the way movie starts, but I said to myself “Holy shit, another hollywood movie ’bout Islam”. But Honestly guys, there are clear messages in this movie :
1- American Military kills punch of innocent people everyday. and if you do the math they would kill punch of million by now since war started.
2- They could save 10.000.000 lives + Younger wife if they would listen to Younger’s demand. there’s nothing about it. it was realistic, reasonable and rational, and it’s just what everybody’s demand, that our troops come back home. The war has ended.
3- Open your mind, the 4th bomb was in 3rd location which they had already disarmed the 3rd bomb there.
4- We’re humans. and if we accept to kill those innocent poor children, we’re not. we’re no longer far than terrorists. coz that what terrorists do.
5- The Unthinkable could be “H wouldn’t kill Younger’s wife but he did” or “The 4th bomb was just in the same building if they would search” maybe “The whole mess, it’s unthinkable” it could be a lot of things.
well, I’m Muslim myself. I’m normal guy. and I just can’t understand why Hollywood can’t stop connecting Terrorism to Islam. Terrorists are many, and Terrorism just has no religion. And we Muslims believe that Terrorists are not Muslims. because in our Holy Book “Quran” there’s a clear announcement that “whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” . and I didn’t like the way that Younger tried to prove his opnion or to deliver his message, I’m totaly against it. but the message was clear and perfect, Peace. That what we all want, peace. No matter what we are, Muslims, Christians, Jwish or whatever. we all want peace. all of our religions are ’bout peace.
that’s it .
Peace,
Yasser