Unthinkable:
directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Michael Sheen.

This is literally a "ticking bomb" of a movie. A terrorist sympathizer (Michael Sheen) who just also happens to be a nuclear physicist of near genius level intelligence has smuggled enough stolen nuclear material into the US to make 3 large scale nuclear devices. He has placed these in 3 cities across the US and has threatened that all three bombs will be detonated if his demands aren't met.

He is chased after by a hastily assembled FBI task force led by Carrie Anne Moss but the FBI discovers that the military has already captured the bomb maker and intends to interrogate him at a "black" site. This interrogation will be led by the enigmatic "H", an independent contractor played by Samuel L. Jackson, who reports to men in suits with no names and whose methods of extracting information start at evil, ramp up to depraved and zoom to unthinkable-thus the title of the film.

In many of his movies Jackson plays the sarcastic, verbally bombastic infuriated Alpha male but in this one it really works. This is literally life and death. The film questions if the only way to defeat evil is to employ evil and also wonders how far any of us would go if millions of lives were at stake.

The parallels to "24" are obvious but unlike Jack Bauer, "H" is not even remotely shown as heroic. Carrie-Anne Moss as the lead FBI agent is the film's conscience and her doubts mirror the audiences (and the US population's own). There is definite moral decay shown by all three leads in this film-some are just further along than others.

Good stuff. If you see it I would see the unrated version with the alternate ending. In any event it is as much a horror film as it is a suspense thriller and political indictment .