The Unthinkable

Name: The Unthinkable
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance
Released: May 7, 2021
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Alexej Manvelov, Christoffer Nordenrot, Jesper Barkselius, Karin Bertling, Krister Kern

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Magnet Releasing | Release Date: May 7, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexej Manvelov, Christoffer Nordenrot, Jesper Barkselius, Karin Bertling, Krister Kern, Lisa Henni, Magnus Sundberg, Pia Halvorsen, Ulrika Bäckström, Yngve Dahlberg

Summary: It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack,It’s midsummer and Sweden wakes up to a state of emergency. TV, internet, and telephone networks are down, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained attacks take place around the country. Alex, a successful pianist whose controlled existence is upturned when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack, returns to his childhood village to arrange the funeral. There, he must reconcile with both his father and his old flame, Anna, who he has desperately been trying to forget. As old feelings come back to the surface, more mysterious attacks plunge Sweden into chaos and confusion. … Expand

Director: Victor Danell

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 129 min

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RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

May 11, 2021

It's impressively staged, especially considering the low budget, and contains a number of action beats that put their high-priced Hollywood competition to shame. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

May 11, 2021

A riveting disaster movie that’s actually heartbreaking, and doesn’t so much delight in world-ending events as it recognizes that surviving them never ensures a happy ending. Getting through the ordeal is only half the battle. Read full review

Noel Murray

May 6, 2021

A lot of big action pictures add “a little heart” between the thrills, but The Unthinkable reverses the ratio, centering emotions. Some genre fans may be impatient with this approach at first, but by the end, it really works. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

May 11, 2021

It packs everything but the kitchen sink (though it does bring the entire Swedish government) into a two-hour-plus survival story that mostly keeps you on the edge of your seat, especially once the bravura action scenes kick in and you start wondering how the heck the filmmakers pulled them off. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

May 11, 2021

It’s the depictions of social breakdown, Swedish tempers exploding, soldiers questioning their priorities in an absence of orders and the action beats — Björn’s crackpot defense of the power station — that drive the narrative, punching through one Big Effect, crash or firefight right into the next. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

May 11, 2021

Despite some strikingly accomplished elements, the awkward whole never quite gels, sewn-together parts from “Red Dawn,” “Independence Day,” et al., failing to cohere amid major logic gaps, not to mention lead characters more off-putting than interesting. Read full review

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