Synopsis
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
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Cast
- Jim CaviezelJean Jacket
- Greg KinnearBroken Nose
- Bridget MoynahanEliza Coles
- Joe PantolianoBound Man
- Barry PepperRancher Shirt
- Jeremy SistoHandcuffed Man
- Peter StormareSnakeskin Boots
- Clayne CrawfordDetective Anderson
- Chris MulkeyDetective James Curtis
- Kevin ChapmanDetective McGahey
Recommendations
- 63
TV Guide Magazine
It's an entertaining diversion whose clever structure gives pulp-crime cliches a welcome twist. - 60
Variety
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. - 50
New York Daily News
It all comes together at the end, logically and with a twist. But it's not a game that allows the audience to play along. When the story is controlled by whatever memories the writer and director choose to put in the characters' heads, you're always on the outside looking in. - 50
New York Post
To kill 80 minutes, the movie has to pad itself with several dull speeches and stagy moments. The worst? How about when the five men, who have ample reason to fear each other and are facing a life-or-death reckoning, whistle "Ode to Joy" together like a bunch of Whiffenpoofs? - 50
L.A. Weekly
Director Simon Brand channels both "Saw" and "Reservoir Dogs" (good influences, both) to propel his main story forward, and even gets nicely twisty when the climax comes, but it's hard to escape the feeling that the B-story was added in to pad the film's running time. - 50
Chicago Tribune
While Brand manages a couple of effectively brutal bits of violence, Matthew Waynee's gassy screenplay is all premise and no propulsion. - 42
The A.V. Club
Unknown manages a hat trick by making its march toward the climax so tedious and unlikely that it unravels even as it gets off the ground. - 40
Village Voice
The pacing is slightly off, with the action switching between the imprisoned men and the police who are trying to find them, and what should be a mounting sense of urgency inside the warehouse (think Reservoir Dogs) falters and goes slack.
