YMMV / Unthinkable

• Broken Aesop: The movie deliberately takes no stand and remains ambiguous as to whether H was right - the viewer is free to form their own opinion on the relationship of ethical and moral values and extreme situations and whether the suspension of said values is justified. Unfortunately, the extended version of the movie thoroughly undermines said premise in just forty or so extra seconds - by showing, after the final scene where the children are led away by Brody, that the fourth bomb is indeed real. The screen fades to black as the timer reaches zero, so it is still somewhat ambiguous whether the bomb really explodes, but it seems to be strongly implied... thus pointing out that Younger indeed lied, and implicitly showing that The Extremist Was Right after all - had H tortured Younger's children, the man would have likely broken and the attack would have been prevented.
• Narm: Henry Harold Humphries or... Triple H. No wonder he only goes by H.
• Special Effect Failure: The bomb defusal scene has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse of the technician's computer while he works with Rapid-Fire Typing, revealing him to be typing random gibberish into an ordinary Excel spreadsheet.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Our protagonist, H, is a Torture Technician who's willing to go to horrible lengths to get his perps to talk. The antagonist, while supposed to be seen as sympathetic, is also a smug Hypocrite who's willing to kill millions of innocent people. Nobody else in the film earns many sympathy points either, and it all ends on a sad note. Leading many viewers to lose interest all together.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: A big problem with the movie.
  • We’re probably meant to pity Steven on some level, but even by the time he dies, he’s been such a smug, remorseless potential mass-murderer that it’s impossible not to despise him. Even his one arguable redeeming quality, his concern for his children’s well-being, is so heinously myopic and hypocritical it’s probably liable to piss a lot of the viewers off even more rather than make him sympathetic.
  • Special Agent Brody spends the whole film chewing H and the people who use him out for their compromised morals, and advocates for a more humane approach towards Steven. Not only does her approach completely fail more than once, but it actually backfires on them and plays into Steven’s hands. But in all of this she never learns from any of it and, in the end, her refusal to allow H to torture Steven’s children in front of him results in millions of deaths. You can easily argue that she is more responsible for the Downer Ending than anybody.
  • The entire premise of the movie itself. Extensive precedent exists that torture notoriously does not work and creates more issues even when considering terrible events at stake. Given that similar actions inspire extremism in the first place, doing the same shall not yield opposite results to acquire compliance. In reality H's actions would have made Steven more enraged and determined, especially with his wife's being killed just as she was being let go, which would have convinced him (whether real or not) that his kids were doomed either way, and hardened enough to let them be tortured if it meant revenge on the people who perform such actions by letting all the bombs go off.

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