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6.8 out of 10

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  • Summary: Unknown unfolds in the style of "Memento," a story told in reverse with an unforeseeable ending. Five men wake up trapped in a chemical warehouse with no memory of who they are or how they got there. They are forced to try to figure out who is good and evil before it's too late. (The Weinstein Co.) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    70
    Music video director Simon Brand makes an impressively taut debut with Unknown, a nifty little psychological crime thriller that suggests a "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" for the postindustrial age.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    60
    Brand has assembled a cast of world class improvisers, yet doesn't take advantage of their own particularized, inflected rhythms, as each ritualistically experiences a jump-cut fragmentary flashback in front of the same bathroom mirror.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    30
    The movie's disinterest in character might be forgivable were its plot not riddled with holes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. AnnieE.
    10
    I loved it. Witty and exciting. Great script, great twists.
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  2. cesargm
    5
    Not great, but really not bad. Cool concept and good cast, but lacked something... Can't quite place what. Maybe it would be better if it kept to the 'one-room film' formula. The scenes on the outside with the cops were distracting and not really necessary for the plot...… Expand
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